A philips field service engineer (fse) went onsite to evaluate the device and confirmed with the customer that the alarms were silenced during the times in question.It was confirmed that the patient was a 32-year-old male.The complaint was escalated for technical investigation by a philips product support engineer (pse) for the allegation that "last friday (b)(6) 2023 between 14:00 and 14:30 in room c23 of micu at (b)(6) hospital a patient coded, and the nurse felt like a desaturation (desat alarm) wasn't making audible noise in room at monitor during resuscitation of patient." the pse evaluated the device logs provided by the customer and saw several alarms being announced at the central station.These alarms were coming from the bedside labeled c23 and there was no indication that there was no alarm.The pse confirmed there were desat alarms during the mentioned timeframe and stated, ¿from what i see, the monitor worked and alarmed as expected".Based on the information available and the testing conducted by the fse, log analysis from our pse and cas, it has been concluded that ¿the monitor worked and alarmed as expected¿ and the device did not cause or contribute to the patient¿s death.It is evident from the aforementioned investigations that the monitor was silenced in the room during the times in question.The engineer provided their analysis findings.The device was confirmed to be operating per specifications, no failure was identified and the device did not cause or contribute to the patient¿s death.It is evident from the aforementioned investigations that the monitor was silenced in the room during the times in question.The investigation concludes that no further action is required at this time.If additional information is received the complaint file will be reopened.
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