The surgery center reported during a laser treatment, error 523- beam steering incomplete message appeared.A brief description from the surgery center indicated the error is intermittent with no warning message.The error presents itself after the cone is docked on the eye.When the error occurs, the surgeon released the suction on the patient in order for the error to clear.The surgeon re-applied the suction and the flap was created successfully.The surgery center is concerned due to the consistency and intermittent error that occurs after suction is applied.Out of 16 procedures scheduled for the day, the error occurred three times at various lengths of time.Although, the error appeared several times, there was one procedure that was not completed resulting in an aborted procedure.The surgeon was able to complete the right eye but the error appeared once again and the error message would not clear.The surgery center was not able to continue the procedure.The patient's left eye's laser treatment and remaining scheduled treatments were cancelled and rescheduled.There is no patient injury reported.
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