It was reported that the device alarmed with ventilator failure in a machine control situation and could not be machine controlled during giving the patient anesthesiaand.There was no patient injury.The maintanence of this hospital was preformed by 3rd party and the user facility did not involve the local dräger s&s organization into examination and repair of the device and, upon contacting the hospital fort the purpose to obtain additional information it was responded that no furhter details can be provided.This does neither allow a case-specific evaluation nor a reliable conclusion in regard to the root cause.According to the report provided by the hospital, the mainframe was later found to be damaged.Its state of maintenance and use was unknown, so the root cause of the accident could not be determined.The anesthesia machine issued an alarm as designed to alert the user, no injuries were reported, and dräger will continue to monitor for similar incidents.
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