According to the customer: "during the patient use, about 120 - 130min.After the extracorporeal circulation started, gas exchange ability decreased.Although they tried flashing, there was no improvement, so the customer replaced the oxygenator.However, the similar symptom also occurred to the replaced device.The customer continued to use the replaced device because it was closed to weaning.The surgery finished successfully." no adverse effects on the patient.(b)(4).
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The product was investigated in the laboratory of the manufacturer.A visual inspection was performed.The product was very dirty from the outside.The oxygenator was cleaned with sodium hypochlorite solution.No other abnormalities were detected.Affected product: basic lot 70114748 and packaging lot 70115447 (serial number (b)(4).The avz from gvg 530 to gvg 544 (b)(4) was reviewed on (b)(6) 2017.There were no references found, which are indicating a nonconformance of the product in question.Additionally a review of the weekly performance monitoring according to si-c-09 has been reviewed (b)(4), the performance tests passed the acceptance criteria.Thus the reported failure could not be confirmed.Based on the results obtained during investigation at this time the cause of the reported incident was determined to not be attributed to a device related malfunction.Since the reported failure did not contribute to a death or serious injury and no systemic issue could be determined no corrective action is needed at this time.
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