| Model Number |
TJF-160VR |
| Medical Device Problem Code |
Microbial Contamination of Device (2303)
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| Health Effect - Clinical Code |
No Clinical Signs, Symptoms or Conditions (4582)
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Type of Reportable Event
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Malfunction
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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Since the source of this report was based on literature research, no specific serial number for duodenoscope was provided, and this study does not represent an individual case.Therefore, it is unknown whether the duodenoscopes described in this literature had been returned to olympus for evaluation and service.The device testing positive for microorganisms may have already been reported separately in the past, since no serial number was provided this could not be confirmed at this time.This mdr is being submitted in an excess of caution.If additional and relevant information becomes available later, this report will be supplemented accordingly.
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Event or Problem Description
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Olympus received an article, which was titled: ¿"assessment of post-manual cleaning adenosine triphosphate tests to prevent the use of contaminated duodenoscopes and linear echoendoscopes: the detect study." methods: in this single-center before-and-after study, dles were atp tested post-cleaning.During the control period participants were blinded for atp results: atp-positive dles were not recleaned.During the intervention period atp-positive dles were recleaned.Dles underwent microbiological sampling after high level disinfection (hld) with participants blinded for culture results.Results: using fifteen endoscopes of five different dle types, nine-hundred-nine procedures were included (52% duodenoscopes, 48% linear echoendoscopes).During the intervention period the absolute rate of contamination with gut flora was higher (16% vs 21%).Main analysis showed that contamination was less likely to occur in the intervention period (or 0.32; 95%ci 0.12-0.85).Secondary analysis showed that this effect was based on one particular duodenoscope type (estimated probability 39%; 95%ci 18%-64% vs 9%; 95%ci 2%-21%), while no effect was seen in the other four dle types.In detail, of the four duodenoscopes of this type two had lower contamination rates (69% vs 39% and 36% vs 10%).During the control period, both these duodenoscopes had multiple episodes with ongoing contamination with the same microorganism which ended weeks before the start of the intervention period, i.E.They were not terminated by atp testing.Conclusion: post-manual cleaning atp tests do not reduce post-hld gut flora contamination rates of dle.Hence, post-cleaning atp tests are not suited as a means for quality control of endoscope reprocessing.Since the literature described "two olympus tjf-160vr¿, two complaints were created to account for these two olympus' duodenoscopes and they are as follows: (b)(4).
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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This report is being supplemented to provide additional information based on the legal manufacturer's final investigation.The dhr was unable to be reviewed for this device since the serial number was not provided.However, olympus only releases products to market that meet all manufacturing specifications and final product release criteria.Based on the results of the investigation, the exact cause of the reported event could not be determined, but it is likely that the cause was factor other than the malfunction of the subject device.A definitive root cause cannot be identified.Olympus will continue to monitor the field performance of this device.
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