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Field Safety Notices about Siemens Cios Alpha C-arm x-ray system

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 Siemens Healthcare GmbH.

What is this?

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
    It has been reported that under certain circumstances, when starting the system up or reconnecting the c-arm cable to the main unit, the error 5000/243 “no x-ray - fd reinitializes‘ may occur. the error refers to a potential hardware malfunction which requires a part replacement. when this error occurs, the system w i become inoperable i.E. no x-ray) until the affected part is replaced.

Device

Siemens Cios Alpha C-arm x-ray system

Manufacturer

Siemens Healthcare GmbH
  • Manufacturer Parent Company (2017)
    Siemens Ag
  • Source
    AMPMDRS