It was reported that during use of the device for a cardiopulmonary bypass procedure, the monitor was reading high potassium (k+) values.This has been an issue for a couple of weeks, but they have been using the monitor as is.The surgical procedure was completed successfully.There was no delay, no blood loss, nor adverse consequences to the patient.Per clinical review on (b)(4) 2014: according to the perfusionist (ccp) they have had a couple of isolated incidents in which the potassium (k+) value of the cdi 500 did not agree with the lab analyzer.The ccp stated they do a gas calibration with the cdi 540 and they enter the k+ code that is o n the shunt sensor package label.On these couple of cases, after the in-vivo recalibrations, the k+ tends to drift away from the lab analyzed result and the ccp stated that the drift is not consistent as the cdi 500 k+ may be higher or lower than the lab analyzed result.There were no error codes displayed.The ccp also stated the unit has been working well recently and they have not seen the issue again.
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