Events

Field Safety Notices about Drager Infinity AC8 Workstation Neonatal Care (Babylog VN500) and Drager Evita V300 with optional PS500 power supply unit

According to Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), this field safety notices involved a device in Slovenia that was produced by Dräger.

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Field safety notices are communications sent out by medical device manufacturers or their representatives in relation to actions that they may be taking in relation to their product that is on the market. These are mainly for health workers, but also for users. They can include recalls and alerts.

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  • Type of Event
    Field Safety Notice
  • Event Country
    Slovenia
  • Event Source
    AMPMDRS
  • Notes / Alerts
    Data from Slovenia is current through February 2019. All of the data comes from the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
    The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
    The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Slovenia.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    Within the framework of our market and product surveillance activities, we have become aware of cases in which the battery runtimes of the optional p8500 power supply unit with the infinity workstation critical care (evita infinity v500) were cut unexpectedly short. the batteries were prematurely depleted despite the device displaying a sufficient charge status. the “battery depleted” alarm was not given in all cases five minutes before the battery was totally depleted, as is specified. once the batteries were totally depleted, the devices each gave the correct alarm to indicate the power failure.

Device

Drager Infinity AC8 Workstation Neonatal Care (Babylog VN500) and Drager Evita V300 with optional...

Manufacturer

Dräger