The ge advance cs2 anesthesia machine failed to detect a 10 liter/min fresh gas flow leak during it's set up procedures (the full leak-test procedure the manufacturer set as required on initiation of the machine's use).This is the second time this model (different machine) has done this: failed to detect a 10 lpm flow leak during it's full leak-test.This is absolutely unacceptable and i have never seen such poor qi/qa on the part of an anesthesia machine manufacturer in my 19 years of anesthesia practice (i am an anesthesiologist).Fda safety report id# (b)(4).
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