It was reported that a (b)(6) male had emergency cabg surgery on the evening of (b)(6) 2021, came to the icu on a cs300 intra-aortic balloon pump (iabp).
During the early hours of (b)(6) 2021 the pump started alarming and they found that the port fill tubing on the safety disk had broken off of the iabp.
The customer started manual inflation until another pump was brought to the icu, hooked up the patient to the new pump and continued with therapy.
The patient expired later in the day on (b)(6) 2021.
The customer sent a picture of the safety disk and iabp asking if it was a common occurrence for the fill port to break off as it did.
Upon seeing the picture it was quite obvious the unit had been hit right on the safety disk or manipulated in some way as the safety disk was clocked counter clock wise.
I also talked and showed the pictures to service and they agreed and confirmed that is was hit/manipulated.
The customer are trying to determine if the iabp going down was a factor in the patient expiring.
This report is for the first cs300 iabp.
The second iabp is being reported separately and the intra-aortic balloon catheter used in this event has been reported separately under medwatch 2248146-2021-00270.
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