This report for non-fatal serious injury/device malfunction has been stored under the covid-19 pandemic in accordance with the guidance published by fda, postmarketing adverse event reporting for medical products and dietary supplements during a pandemic.Since the subject device was not returned to olympus medical systems corp.(omsc), it could not be investigated.Omsc reviewed the manufacturing history (dhr) of the subject device and confirmed no irregularity.The exact cause of the reported event could not be conclusively determined.However based on the report of olympus (b)(4), omsc surmised there was the possibility this phenomenon was attributed to the user handling such as spilling a liquid like water unintentionally.If additional information becomes available, this report will be supplemented.
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