Getinge became aware of an incident with hanaulux surgical light.As it was stated set pin of handle pillar mounted on the device came off and fell down into sterile field during a surgery.Fortunately, there was no adverse outcome reported however, we decided to report the issue based on the potential for injury if the situation was to reoccur, as any object falling into the sterile field might be a source of cross contamination.It was established that when the event occurred, the surgical light did not meet its specification and was directly involved in the reported event.When the issue occurred it was being used for patient treatment.When reviewing similar reportable events for the same device, we have been able to confirm that prior to this event none were reported to getinge company, this is considered as single isolated event.Despite the effort made the involved part of the device could not be returned for further investigation as was disposed by the customer.Therefore detailed investigation could not be performed.The manufacturer¿s subject matter experts have reviewed the information provided including photographic evidence and unfortunately could not provide the specific root cause which was not possible to be established.Getinge shall continue to monitor for any further events of this nature and do not propose any further action at this time.
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