The customer reported that central station (pic ix) failed to alarm on (b)(6) 2019 at 13.05; the patient went into a p-wave asystole.T is unclear at the time of this report, if there was a patient injury.However, if a patient enters asystole this represents a life threatening condition.
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H10: a philips field service engineer (fse) went to the customer site.The fse checked the alarm with a patient simulator while, and the device alarmed as expected.The fse obtained the alarm log from the pic ix, and images of the general review screen.The general review screen images show that red alarms occurred for asystole: the alarm log was sent to a philips complaint investigator (ci) for review.The ci found that alarms were silenced at 13:04:09; alarms will not occur, until after the configured alarm delay.The default setting of the alarm delay is three minutes, and as seen in the alarm log, after three minutes, the device began to alarm at 13:07:02 for a ecg leads off: based on the investigation, there was no product malfunction; the alarms had been silenced at 13:04 for an asystole alarm occurring at 13:00, and the reported asystole alarm at 13:05 was within the alarm delay window.The device remains in use at the customer site.No subsequent calls have been logged for this device/issue.No further investigation or action is warranted at this time.Submission of a report does not constitute an admission that medical personnel, user facility, importer, distributor, manufacturer, or product caused or contributed to the event.
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