It was reported that during patient use, the cardiosave intra-aortic balloon pump (iabp) drive stopped automatically and restarted automatically.Late at night, a hospital staff noticed that this iabp seemed to have stopped for about 1 hour and augmentation had not been displayed on the monitor during that time.Reportedly, this iabp unit had re-started pumping spontaneously when the staff noticed.There was no patient harm reported.
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Updated fields: b4, d9, g3, g6, h2, h3, h4, h6(type of investigation, investigation findings, investigation conclusions), h10.A running test was performed by a medical engineer of this facility.The reported issue was unable to be confirmed.This iabp unit was inspected at our service center after returning from the facility.Although running test was performed for about 16 hours (8 hours/day), the issue was not replicated.This iabp unit is going to be returned for clinical use to the facility without replacing parts.
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