The olympus wm-p1 series mobile workstation is intended for use in medical facilities under the direction of a trained physician and has been designed to be used with a range of olympus equipment to facilitate gi endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, respiratory and surgical endoscopic procedures.Keymed (medical & industrial equipment) ltd has been made aware of an event which took place in (b)(6).The physician had completed a diagnostic large bowel endoscopy procedure, when he noticed an abnormal smell and found white smoke coming from the connection between the plug of the subject device and the wall outlet socket.Facility staff pulled the plug out of the wall socket, the plug broke and left residue in the wall outlet socket.There is no report of injury to patient or user and this report is submitted in an abundance of caution.
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Device was not returned to the manufacturer, however images of the power cord plug and broken pin were provided to the manufacturer for investigation purposes.Images of the fault are consistent with the failures see previously - whereby mechanical stressing of the pins has occurred, consistence with use error (eg moving the workstation whilst plugged in).Olympus (b)(4) provided the following information: the healthcare facility performed 'prior-to-use' checks on the subject device, no maintenance records were available for the subject device.There have been no service events recorded at the olympus (b)(4) service centre for the subject device.It had been previously reported that the healthcare facility had recently undertaken replacement construction works for the wall outlet socket.Subsequent information has confirmed that the healthcare facility replaced the cover and the socket of the outlet.The healthcare facility did not change the wiring.Ifu instructs the customer to inspect and replace mains lead at the first sign of damage to the connector or lead.
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