On 30th june, 2023 getinge became aware of an issue with one of our examination lights ¿ lucea 40.Based on photographic evidence the headlight was cracked with missing particles.There was no injury reported, however we decided to report the issue in abundance of caution as any particles falling may lead to potential infection of the patient.
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On 30th june 2023 getinge became aware of an issue with one of our examination lights ¿ lucea 40.It was stated the light body part fell.On the provided photographic evidence the designated complaint unit employee found that the headlight was cracked with missing particles and detached from the arm, just cables keeps parts together.There was no injury reported, however we decided to report the issue in abundance of caution as any particles falling may lead to potential infection of the patient.
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The correction of b5 describe event and problem and d4 serial # deems required.This is based on the internal evaluation.Previous b5 describe event and problem: on 30th june, 2023 getinge became aware of an issue with one of our examination lights ¿ lucea 40.Based on photographic evidence the headlight was cracked with missing particles.There was no injury reported, however we decided to report the issue in abundance of caution as any particles falling may lead to potential infection of the patient.Corrected b5 describe event and problem: on 30th june 2023 getinge became aware of an issue with one of our examination lights ¿ lucea 40.It was stated the light body part fell.On the provided photographic evidence the designated complaint unit employee found that the headlight was cracked with missing particles and detached from the arm, just cables keeps parts together.There was no injury reported, however we decided to report the issue in abundance of caution as any particles falling may lead to potential infection of the patient.Previous d4 serial # (b)(6), corrected d4 serial #(b)(6).Getinge became aware of an issue with one of our examination lights ¿ lucea 40.It was stated the light body part fell.On the provided photographic evidence the designated complaint unit employee found that the headlight was cracked with missing particles and detached from the arm, just cables keeps parts together.There was no injury reported, however we decided to report the issue in abundance of caution as any particles falling may lead to potential infection of the patient.Based on an information gathered, defective handle interface with fork - lucea 40 (ard368605998) was replaced, and device was released for further use.Based on the information collected, it was established that when the event occurred, the examinational light did not meet its specification, due to headlight cracked with missing particles nd risk of headlight detachment from the fork, which could be considered as technical deficiency, and in this way the device contributed to the event.Provided information does not indicate if upon the event occurrence, the device was or was not being used for patient treatment.When reviewing similar reportable events for the same device type, it was confirmed that in the last 5 years, registered for the issues of headlight cracked with missing particles and headlight detachment from the fork, there is no event which led to the serious injury.Comparing the number of claimed devices to number of sold devices worldwide, we can assume that the failure ratio for the issue of cracked headlight with missing particles is moderate, and for headlight detachment is very low.As stated by subject matter expert at the manufacturing site, the headlight is cracked due to a violent rotation of the light head.It can be noticed that the housing is split at the stop location.This stop is used to limit the rotation of the light to 290°.The insertion of the stop in the housing (made of abs-pc) is performed by ultrasonic process.It means that it is strain-free after assembly.Then, the only possible root cause to split the housing at this location is a violent shock during rotation.Regarding this stop rotation some tests have been done in 2011 at maquet sas.The test report re11-052 mentions that the light lucea 40 is compliant to the standard ul60601-1.Indeed, tests have been performed on 2 light heads with 50 strong rotations on both direction (clockwise and counterclockwise) and no cracks were found.We believe that all remaining devices are performing correctly in the market.Getinge shall continue to monitor for any further events of this nature and do not propose any further action at this time.
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