Friday morning, our phillips equipment was turned on in cath lab room 2.Shortly after booting up the system, the staff smelled burning plastic.The fire alarms automatically went off.One of the electrical panels for the phillips equipment had caught fire.The emergency button was hit to shut down all power to room.The (b)(6) fire department arrived and assessed the situation.Room 2 is down for repairs.We were recently notified of a recall of the equipment in the last month.Manufacturer response for electrical, (brand not provided) (per site reporter): this event is the direct result of a recent alert/recall issued by the vendor.The vendor has taken responsibility for the event and all costs associated with the repair.The system will be out of service for 2 weeks for repair.
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