Patient information as well as additional information associated with the complaint have been requested and is either unknown, will not be made available to medtronic, or will be provided and updated in a supplemental report.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.
Event Description
Medtronic received a report that alleged the alarm on this unit did not sound.This reportedly occurred during use on a home care patient who was 5 months old.This device was used with a ventilator and was only used at night.The patient was reportedly in respiratory arrest and transported to the hospital.Medtronic has requested additional information regarding the circumstances surrounding the patient event.