As part of a remedial activity, lumenis conducted a retrospective review of all its slimline 200¿ fiber complaint files from january 2015 to may 2017.An investigation of the reported event found that the reported malfunction of the slimline 200¿ fiber was similar to a device malfunction that was alleged to have caused or contributed to a potentially harmful situation.Because the company is aware that this malfunction was alleged to have caused or continued to a serious injury (reference mdr #3004135191-2017-00002), this event represents a reportable malfunction.Three (3) reasonable attempts were made to obtain further information about the reported event from the user facility however none was received.Subject fiber had not been returned to manufacturer for product analysis despite the reasonable attempts, thus root cause could not be determined.In an abundance of caution lumenis is reporting this event as a product problem/malfunction.Although the doctor was able to remove the broken fiber fragments from within the patient and no patient harm had been reported, lumenis is also reporting this as an adverse event as medical intervention was required to preclude serious injury.
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