Upper neck base of bag fell/tore off.Additional information received on (b)(4) 2014 from (b)(6): in this situation, a nurse was using the product on a patient and the neck came off the resus bag, in addition, the reservoir bag came off and tore.Customer stated that the bag was replaced and no patient harm or injury reported.Customer stated sample was tossed.Representative sample being sent.
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Cfn-2014-681.Results of investigation: unfortunately, the sample was not available for evaluation.However, a representative sample from lot 0000585933 was sent for evaluation.Per visual inspection, the sample was received without a mask.The (elbow-fitting) component was inspected and was found within specification, no detaching conditions were observed.Unfortunately, a lot number of the product in this incident was not available.Therefore, a review of the internal production records could not be performed.However, lot 0000585933 was taken from the sample received and no issues were observed during the production record review.After the manufacturing process review, it was observed that personnel are performing the assembly in accordance to procedure: the operator takes connector (elbow-fitting) component and assembles this by press to the elbow end.Based on the investigation, at this time it¿s not possible to determine a root cause for the elbow (neck) coming off the bag since the representative sample showed no defects.Carefusion will continue to monitor and trend this report.
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