Field Safety Notices about LIFEPAK 15

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 Physio-Control.

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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
  • 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
    Physio-control has learned of a possible lifepak 15 error, which may cause defibrillation energy defects due to a possible failure of the internal component (relay) located on the pcba panel. possible incorrect operation of the relay can be verified by using the user's test of the device as described in the chapter "maintenance of equipment" in the operating instructions of the lifepak 15 utility.

Device

Manufacturer

  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
  • Source
    AMPMDRS