Class 2 Device Recall Artisan Control Catheter

• Date Initiated by Firm: May 21, 2008
• Date Posted: September 11, 2008
• Recall Status: Terminated on May 27, 2009
• Recall Number: Z-2106-2008
• Recall Event ID: 48444
• 510(K)Number: K052480
• Product Classification: Steerable catheter - Product Code DRA
• Product: Artisan Control Catheter, model number 04454, manufactured by Hansen Medical, Inc., Mountain View, CA. Steerable guide catheter for human use intended to facilitate manipulation, positioning and control for collecting electrophysiological data within the heart atria.
• Code Information: Lot numbers: 2182, 2185, 2186, 2199, 2200-2203, 2205, 2206, 2008, 2213-2218, 2220, 2223-2231, 2233, 2234, 2236-2245, 2247, 2249, 2251, 2261-2263, 2265, 2267-2271, 2273, 2274, 2276-2279, 2284, 2288-2297, 2301-2303, 2305, 2309, 2315, 2318, 2320-2322, 2324, 2327, 2328, 2330, 2332, 2334, 2342, 2344-2349, 2351, 2353, 2355-2357, 2359-2363, 2366-2367, 2370, 2370, 2374-2375, 2377-2378, 2381-2382, 2384, 2387-2389, 2391, 2392, 2394,2395, 2397, 2399, 2400, 2404, 2405, 2412, 2417, 2420, 2421, 2423-2426, 2429, 2430, 2432-2434, 2436, 2442, 2444, 2446-2448, 2450, 2453, 2457-2461, 2463-2467, 2469-2472, 2475-2483, 2485-2490, 2494, 2497, 2500, 2502-2504, 2508, 2510, 2512-2518, 2522, 2526, 2529, 2531-2532, 2534, 2536, 2538, 2539, 2547, 2549, 2551, 2553, 2556, 2558-2560, 2562-2565, 2568, 2569, 2571, 2574-2577, 2579, 2581-2582, 2586, 2588-2589, 2591-2596, 2601, 2604, 2609, 2610, 2612, 2617, 2619, 2626, 2627, 2636, 2637, 2639-2642, 2644, 2675, 2682, 2684, 2685, 2688, 2689, 2698-2699, 2701-2707, 2709, 2716, 2720, 2722-2723, 2726-2727, 2729, 2732-2735, 2738, 2741, 2743, 2745, 2746, 2752, 2754-2757, 2761, 2767, 2773-2774, 2776, 2779, 2782, 2783, 2785-2789, 2791, 2797-2798, 2801, 2803-2804, 2806, 2809, 2812, 2814-2815, 2817-2818, 2821, 2822, 2824, 2827, 2829-2831, 2833-2837, 2839, 2843, 2848, 2850, 2854, 2857, 2862, 2865, 2872, 2879, 2882, 2886, 2888, 2889, 2894, 2896, 2898, 2904, 2908-2909, 2913, 2915, 2920, 2922, 2924, 2925, 2930, 2932, and 2940.
• Recalling Firm/ Manufacturer: Hansen Medical Inc; 380 N. Bernardo Ave.; Mountain View CA 94043-5207
• For Additional Information Contact: 650-404-5940
• Manufacturer Reason for Recall: The catheter's flexible bellows portion may develop a leak. This has the potential to cause loss of hemostasis, flush fluid leakage, and/or introduction of air into the catheter with a risk of subsequent embolism.
• FDA Determined Cause: Device Design
• Action: On May 21, 2008 an Urgent: Voluntary Product Recall Notification was issued. All customers who received affected product were verbally contacted directly by the firm, and were sent a follow up letter, asking them to segregate the product. Replacements will be shipped to them. If you have questions please contact Doug Worth at 1-650-404-5940.
• Quantity in Commerce: 369 units
• Distribution: Class II Recall - Worldwide Distribution ---- including USA and countries of UK, Italy, Germany, and Czech Republic.
• Total Product Life Cycle: TPLC Device Report

¹ A record in this database is created when a firm initiates a correction or removal action. The record is updated if the FDA identifies a violation and classifies the action as a recall, and it is updated for a final time when the recall is terminated. Learn more about medical device recalls.
² Per FDA policy, recall cause determinations are subject to modification up to the point of termination of the recall.
³ For details about termination of a recall see Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21 §7.55.

• 510(K) Database: 510(K)s with Product Code = DRA and Original Applicant = HANSEN MEDICAL, INC.