Patient information was not provided by customer.There was no injury reported.Type of reportable event was corrected to malfunction.Investigation of this event was performed using information provided by ge healthcare field service engineer on site and analysis of logs from the system.During an emergency procedure for a patient stroke, the system lost its x-ray capability twice during critical phase of the procedure.Each time, the system was recovered by a reset and it caused a delay of 10 minutes.Customer reported no measurable neurological harm in delivering a clot-busting thrombolytic drug with no extended patient stay.The procedure was completed without further sequelae.As of today, there was no injury reported by the hospital.It has been confirmed that there was no injury associated with this event.The log analysis showed that the dl (digital leader) computer has reset twice abruptly during the procedure causing system lock-up.The most probable root cause of this issue has been identified as a temporary failure of the pci (peripheral component interconnect) controller in dl computer during the procedure.Neither defect nor pattern has been identified with this component.This system was corrected by replacing dl computer on november 7, 2016.Based on this analysis, neither corrective nor preventive action has been deemed necessary, and no further action is required at that time.
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