It was reported during treatment with therapeutic plasma exchange (tpe) using a prismaflex tpe2000 set, a blood leak detection alarm was generated.Five minutes after the start of therapy, the machine presented a blood leak alarm and there was evidence of a clear rupture of membranes which lead to the external and internal blood leak.There was no report of patient injury or medical intervention associated with this event.No additional information is available.
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B5: the accumulated blood lost was estimated to be 50ml.H10: the actual device was not available; however, a photograph of the sample was provided for evaluation.During visual inspection of the provided photographic samples, blood was observed in the effluent fluid.Furthermore, the photo of the filter shows it connected to the machine during treatment with blood visible in the plasma water.The reported condition was verified.However, due to the nature of the provided samples, no further testing could be performed.Therefore, the cause of the condition could not be determined.A batch review was conducted and there were no deviations found related to this reported condition during the manufacture of this lot.Should additional relevant information become available, a supplemental report will be submitted.
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