According to the customer: during the tumor excision and tap surgery, the customer assembled the circuit, completed priming and started cpb on at 12:53p.M.About 40min.After pump on, some blood droplets found on the floor.The customer checked the oxygenator and found the blood was oozing from the dialysis lock valve.It was not much leakage, the customer continued to use the device and pcb off at 3:51 p.M.The surgery was finished with no impact from this incident.Pulsatile flow was not used.-no adverse effects on the patient.Ref.: #(b)(4).
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The product was investigated in the laboratory of the manufacturer.By visual inspection it was determined that within the dialysis lock and valve was blood.The oxygenator was cleaned with sodium hypochlorite solution.A tightness test was performed and a leakage on the dialysis lock and valve was confirmed hereby.No other abnormalities were detected.Thus the reported failure could be confirmed.Besides that mcp has decided, based on several complaints for the dialysis lock and valve showing the same symptoms with different material numbers than the one in this complaint, to initiate another capa (corrective and preventive action) in order to determine the root cause and initiate further actions to determine corrective measures for the failure as well as to clarify whether a systemic issue is present.All further steps will be performed in accordance to (b)(4).The data is also being handled through a designated maquet cardiopulmonary trending and applicable investigation process.Due to this no further investigation initiations will be completed at this time.
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