Getinge became aware of an issue with one of surgical lights - volista standop.It was stated the keypad was detached from the device.We decided to report the issue in abundance of caution as any parts falling off into sterile field or during procedure may cause contamination or injury.Defective part was replaced and light was returned to use.It was established that when the event occurred, the device did not meet its specification, due to detachment keypad on the device and it contributed to event.It was not established if at the time when the event occurred the device was or was not being used for the patient treatment.During the investigation, it was found that the reported scenario has never led, to date, to serious injury or worse.When reviewing reportable events for this type of issues we were able to establish that the received incident is occurring at a very low ratio.This incident is due to the debonding of the keypad pcb.The events are concentrated over a period of 6 months (from (b)(6) 2018 to (b)(6) 2018) that is to say products manufactured between august 2017 and march 2018, but is a probability to have this failure on units manufactured at a date close to this period.About this problem, the capa # 2018-15 (tw#(b)(4)) was inititated by maquet sas and despite investigation led both at maquet sas and at the supplier any cause could be confirmed.Nevertheless, at the end of 2018 the supplier has implemented some preventive actions to address the probable root causes.We believe that currently and overall, the related devices are performing correctly in the market with regards to the reported issue.
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