A facility reported the hakim valve accidentally reset during an abdominal intervention.After the surgery, the patient started to show symptoms of low brain drainage flow.A codman vpv programmer was used to set the valve to the original setting, resulting in patient recovery.
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The hakim valve was not returned for evaluation and lot number information has not been provided; therefore, an evaluation of the device could not be performed, and manufacturing records could not be reviewed.The cause(s) of the difficulty reported by the customer could not be determined.If additional relevant information becomes available in the future, this complaint will be reopened, and the respective evaluation performed.Trends will be monitored for this and similar issues.At present, we consider this complaint to be closed.The possible root cause for the programming issue reported by the customer could be due strong magnet field as noted in the ifu : subjecting the valve to strong magnetic fields may change the setting of the valve.
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