Olympus medical systems corp.(omsc) was informed that during a procedure, a pancreatic stent was expelled from the subject device when the user inserted a 7 fr.Biliary stent into the device.The user reported that the pancreatic duct stent had not been used at the user facility and the subject device was a loaner device from olympus.It was second procedure for the user facility that the subject device was used at the facility, and the first procedure was a cholangiography using an endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ercp) catheter.After the first procedure, the subject device was manually cleaned and reprocessed with an olympus automated endoscope reprocessor model oer-4 (not available in the usa).When the user retrieved the pancreatic duct stent from the subject device and inspected it, the facility found that the stent was partially damaged.Therefore, the user facility believed that a part of the stent possibly fell off and remained in the patient.There was no report of patient injury with this report.
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