This pi is for patient 3 of 10.Surgeon reported he is experiencing a high complication rate with patients whose primary procedures were mako procedures.The nature of the 10 cases is unknown at the time of report.Complications reported include effusions, pain, stiffness, possibly requiring 'scopes' and/ or poly exchanges.The nature of intervention for each of the 10 patients is unknown.
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This pi is for patient 3 of 10.Surgeon reported he is experiencing a high complication rate with patients whose primary procedures were mako procedures.The nature of the 10 cases is unknown at the time of report.Complications reported include effusions, pain, stiffness, possibly requiring 'scopes' and/ or poly exchanges.The nature of intervention for each of the 10 patients is unknown.Update 01/september/2020: as reported by clinician review, patient had an arthroscopic debridement of adhesions of her left knee on (b)(6) 2020.
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Reported event: it was reported, "this pi is for patient 3 of 10.Surgeon reported he is experiencing a high complication rate with patients whose primary procedures were mako procedures.The nature of the 10 cases is unknown at the time of report.Complications reported include effusions, pain, stiffness, possibly requiring 'scopes' and/ or poly exchanges.The nature of intervention for each of the 10 patients is unknown.Update 01/september/2020: as reported by clinician review, patient had an arthroscopic debridement of adhesions of her left knee on (b)(6) 2020.".Product evaluation and results: review of the case session files was not performed as case session data was not provided.Clinician review: typed case history: long history of left knee pain and previous surgeries.(b)(6) 2019 left mako tka "no complications" post-op course continued pain and swelling.Manipulation 9/17/19.Arthroscopic debridement of adhesions 11/19/19 and 7/13/20.The available medical records were provided to the consulting clinician for a review which was rejected stating, "no imaging studies, no operative reports, no surgical pathology reports.Based upon the information supplied, no correlation of the clinical course described with the mako procedure or instruments can be confirmed nor a medical report created for this case.".Product history review.A review of device history records shows that rob406 was inspected on 27 june 2016 and the quality inspection procedures were completed with no reported discrepancies.Complaint history review a search of the complaint database under device identification pn 209999, rob406 reports similar complaints for tka software ¿ other.Conclusions: the exact cause of the event could not be determined because insufficient information was provided.A review of the provided medical records by a clinician indicated that: no imaging studies, no operative reports, no laboratory reports.Based upon the information available for review, no confirmation of a correlation between the clinical course described and the mako procedure or instruments employed.Creation of a medical report is not possible for this case.Further information such as return of the case session/log data, imaging studies, operative reports and laboratory reports are required to fully investigate the event.Are needed to complete the investigation for determining root cause.No additional investigation or specific actions are required.If additional information is received then the complaint will be reopened.Corrective action/preventive action: a review of stryker¿s nc/capa database indicated there have been no ncs or capas associated with the product and failure mode reported in this event.
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