This supplemental report is being submitted to provide additional information.The subject device was not returned to olympus medical systems corp.(omsc), therefore omsc cannot investigate the subject device.Omsc reviewed the manufacturing history (dhr) of the subject device and confirmed no irregularity.The exact cause of the reported event could not be conclusively determined.If additional information becomes available, this report will be supplemented.
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This supplemental report is being submitted to provide a correction to the following fields to include information that was inadvertently not included on the previous submission: a1, b5, d4, d8, e1, e2, e3, g2, h4 and h6.In addition, this supplemental report includes a correction to the lm investigation findings previously submitted.Based on the results of the investigation, although it was previously reported that the root cause could not be determined, the reported event was likely caused by the following: 1.The angle was forcibly hung, suddenly operated, pulled or twisted while the angle was hung.2.The endoscope was inserted and removed while the curvature of the endoscope was fixed.3.Various operations were performed without viewing endoscopic images.4.Various operations were performed while freezing the endoscopic image on the monitor.The event can be detected/prevented by following the instructions for use (ifu) which state: "warnings and cautions: follow the warnings and cautions given below when handling this instrument.This information is to be supplemented by the warnings and cautions given in each chapter." "warning: never perform angulation control forcibly or suddenly.Never forcefully pull, twist or rotate the angulated bending section.Patient injury, bleeding and/or perforation can result."" olympus will continue to monitor field performance for this device.
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