The customer reported the death of a 68-year-old post-op repair/replacement of an ascending aortic aneurysm.The surgery took place on (b)(6) 2023, the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit (icu) thereafter and on (b)(6) 2023, the patient started to experience nausea, vomiting and fever, although hemodynamics were reportedly still stable.At approximately 04:00 on (b)(6) 2023, the nurse noticed abnormal trace on the central station and subsequently went to the patient¿s room and found the patient in cardiac arrest.The on-call resuscitator was called but unfortunately the patient was declared dead at 06:00.The patient information center ix, catalog item 866389, serial number (b)(6), in use during this event was reported in mfr report number 1218950-2023-00417.
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The following functional tests were performed: the philips remote service engineer (rse) extracted and analyzed the logs, and the device was working as designed.The complaint was escalated to the product support engineer (pse) for technical investigation and the results indicate for timepoint of (b)(6) 2023 at around 04:30 a.M., the tel11 of bed label 441 had cardiac alerts which were silenced at the patient information center ix (pic ix).The mx40 was associated to the picix from 03:52 a.M.Until 07:10.Mx40 was sending alarms to the pic ix until an ecg leads off condition occurred.The audit log shows that premature ventricular contraction (pvc) alarms were being provided until the ecg leads off condition occurred.Also note that ecg leads off was set as a !!! red technical inop alarm.No further ecg related physiological alarms would be provided until the ecg leads off condition was resolved.The mx40 was functioning as intended.The reported problem was not confirmed.Information was provided to the customer to resolve the issue.
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