It has been reported to philips that a nurse injured her finger while moving the table top.According to the information collected, the table top was hard to move in longitudinal direction and the nurse grabbed the table rail to guide the movement.While moving, her finger got caught between the table rail and the upper cover of the table base.The fingernail was cut in half and stitches were required.The nurse will be on sick leave for two weeks.Philips has started an investigation of this complaint.
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Additional narrative: a philips service engineer inspected the ad7 table onsite.The difficulty in moving the table top longitudinally was caused by metal dust on the longitudinal table brake.The table brake rail was cleaned, and the longitudinal table brake was replaced as a preventive measure.The system was returned to use in good working order.The instructions for use of the system (9897 100 04241, pages 2-17) include a warning regarding access to the longitudinal guiding profiles of the table: ¿personnel should be aware that it is possible to access the longitudinal guiding profiles from underneath the tabletop.Serious injury may result if any part(s) of the personnel present become trapped in the longitudinal guiding profiles¿.Philips discussed this warning in the instructions for use with the customer, and customer confirmed that they were aware of this warning.Based on the investigation of this complaint, philips concludes that the finger entrapment was not caused by a malfunction of the system.Corrected data: patient weight, 510k, product brand name, fda product code, common device name, model number, catalog item identifier, serial number, device identifier (gtin), manufacture date, labeled for single use.
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