The subject device has not been returned to omsc but was returned to (b)(4).(b)(4) sent the device to a third party laboratory for microbiological testing.As a result of the testing, no microbe was detected from the sample collected from the distal end and the instrument channel of the device.The testing result cleared the german guideline.The exact cause of the reported event could not be conclusively determined at this time.If additional information becomes available, this report will be supplemented.
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Olympus medical systems corp.(omsc) was informed that as a result of microbiological testing by the user facility, following microbes were detected from the sample collected from the subject device.-unspecified microbes (2 cfu/10ml), pseudomonas species (2 cfu) the device had been reprocessed with a non-olympus automated endoscope reprocessor, e4 using glutaraldehyde.In the evaluation of olympus (b)(4), it was found that there was the leakage on the insertion section, the distal end and the instrument channel.There was no report of infection associated with this report.
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