Olympus medical systems corp (omsc) was informed that during pancreaticoduodenectomy, the subject device could be recovered by re-booting up, the physician used it for a while.However, at the letter half of the surgery, the same phenomenon recurred.The surgery was completed with a similar device.There was no report injury regarding this event.
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The subject device was returned to omsc for evaluation.The evaluation confirmed that the event could not be duplicated and the subjected device passed for all functional tests.There were not any malfunctions on the subject device.The manufacturing history was reviewed, with no irregularities noted.As the result of the evaluation, since there were not any malfunctions on the subject device, we could not determine the cause of this event.The device connection or power source environment at the facility cannot be ruled out as a contributory factor to this event.This report is being submitted as a medical device report in an abundance of caution.
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