Medtronic received information that during use the bio-console instrument's batteries failed.The patient was on extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo) support using this console, during transport to another area of the hospital when the batteries failed, necessitating cpr until ac power could be re-established, approximately 2 minutes.Use of the instrument was continued with no resulting adverse patient effect.This bio-console had ¿after market¿ batteries placed by the hospitals bio-med technicians.These are batteries with known performance issues.These technicians are now opting to replace these batteries with oem medtronic approved batteries obtained from medtronic.
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