The customer reported that on (b)(6) 2022, a patient was found dead on toilet.Nurses said that the patient was connected to mx40 telemetry failed to alarm.The device was in use at time of event and a patient death was reported.Upon review with the product support engineer, it was confirmed that there was a power interruption on the device during the time of the reported incident.The device failed to reboot after the power disruption.Based on the review performed by the product support engineer, it is not possible to rule out the cause for device's failure to provide physiological alarms, although it was confirmed that there was power interruption at the time.Based on the results from the investigation, it is concluded that the device failed to perform as intended, although the potential cause cannot be ruled out.
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