Philips received a complaint on the patient information center ix indicating that there was an adverse event after the hospital personnel mistakenly changed the confirmation of the bedside device to that of comfort care.The event occurred between 1153-1207 hrs, (b)(6) 2022.The patient had coded for an extended length of time and passed away.There was no hospital staff intervention during the time that the patient was coding.The customer reported that the mp30 bedside monitor which was connected to the pic ix system was accidentally placed in comfort care profile between 11:53 and 12:07 on the (b)(6) 2022 and he did not hear any alarm.The monitored patient was coding for 10 minutes prior the emergency care staff attended to the patient.A philips field service engineer went onsite to obtain audit logs from the pic ix.A philips product support engineer(pse) reviewed the audit trail logs and found that alarms were generated at 1153-1207 hrs, (b)(6) 2022 for bed label ed 07 and the alarms were acknowledged.Based on the information available and the testing conducted, the cause of the reported problem was that the user mistakenly put the bedside monitor into a comfort care configuration.The device functioned according to specification during the event.The monitor appears to have functioned as configured; however, the user chose the incorrect patient profile.There was no confirmation of an issue.
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