MEDTRONIC PUERTO RICO OPERATIONS CO. SYNCHROMED II; PUMP, INFUSION, IMPLANTED, PROGRAMMABLE
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Model Number 8637-40 |
Device Problem
Device Alarm System (1012)
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Patient Problem
No Clinical Signs, Symptoms or Conditions (4582)
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Event Date 01/10/2023 |
Event Type
malfunction
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Manufacturer Narrative
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This regulatory report is being submitted as part of a retrospective review as part of remediation plan 411.Medtronic is submitting this report to comply with fda reporting regulations under 21 cfr parts 4 and 803.This report is based upon information obtained by medtronic, which the company may not have been able to fully investigate or verify prior to the date the report was required by the fda.Medtronic has made reasonable efforts to obtain more complete information and has provided as much relevant information as is available to the company as of the submission date of this report.This report does not constitute an admission or a conclusion by fda, medtronic, or its employees that the device, medtronic, or its employee caused or contributed to the event described in the report.In particular, this report does not constitute an admission by anyone that the product described in this report has any ¿defects¿ or has ¿malfunctioned¿.These words are included in the fda 3500a form and are fixed items for selection created by the fda to categorize the type of event solely for the purpose of regulatory reporting.Medtronic objects to the use of these words and others like them because of the lack of definition and the connotations implied by these terms.This statement should be included with any information or report disclosed to the public under the freedom of information act.Any required fields that are unpopulated are blank because the information is currently unknown or unavailable.A good faith effort will be made to obtain the applicable information relevant to the report.If information is provided in the future, a supplemental report will be issued.
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Event Description
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Information was received from multiple sources (patient, manufacturer representative, foreign) regarding a patient who was receiving an unknown drug of an unknown concentration at an unknown dose rate via an implantable pump.It was reported that the last pump filling was on (b)(6) 2023 at approximately 14 o'clock. the patient mentioned that their pump was beeping; however the pump readout showed no alarm occurred in the log data.After readout, the beeping occurred again when the patient was alone.The first alarm occurred on (b)(6) 2023. the last alarms heard occurred on (b)(6) 2023 at 14:13 o'clock, 16:50 o'clock, 20 o'clock, and then nothing more.The readout of the logs from (b)(6) 2023 and (b)(6) 2023, performed with a model ct900 programmer, showed no error message.No elective replacement indicator (eri) or any other alarm showed up in the pump logs. no further troubleshooting was performed. no surgical intervention occurred and no surgical intervention was planned. the issue was resolved as of (b)(6) 2023. the patient was without injury regarding their status as of (b)(6) 2023. regarding environmental/external/patient factors that may have led or contributed to the issue, it was indicated that there were no external factors.The patient's medical history, age, and weight at the time of the event was unknown or would not be made available.
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