There was no patient involvement.The heater-cooler 16-02-80 is not distributed in the usa and it is similar to heater-cooler 16-02-85, which is distributed in the usa (510(k) number: k191402).Livanova (b)(4) manufactures the heater-cooler system 3t.The incident occurred in (b)(6).A review of dhr could not identify any deviations or nonconformities relevant to the issue.The plugs of all heater-cooler devices in use at the hospital had been replaced last year following to the first occurrence of the event (reported under mfr report number 9611109 -2018 -01412).One of the plugs had returned to the manufacturer site for investigation and results revealed that the diameter of the pins of the plug was within the standards.Therefore, it is very likely that the root cause for the overheating was not the plug but the wall socket.
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