The facility reported that a patient was positioned prone in the mayfield skull clamp (id a3059) for a posterior cervical fusion.During the operation the patient¿s head slipped and needed to be repositioned, and needed to be repositioned under the drapes.Additionally, it was observed that the notches appeared worn on the mayfield.Delay in surgery was less than 30 minutes with no known patient injury.
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Device identifier: (b)(4).The mayfield skull clamp was not returned for evaluation and lot number information has not been provided; therefore, an evaluation of the device could not be performed, and manufacturing records could not be reviewed.The cause(s) of the difficulty reported by the customer could not be determined.If additional relevant information becomes available in the future, this complaint will be reopened, and the respective evaluation performed.Trends will be monitored for this and similar issues.At present, we consider this complaint to be closed.
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