Medtronic received information that during use of a custom tubing pack, the customer reported that they noticed leaking tubing on line 3 in the custom tubing pack.The leak was from the mvr bag, around the seal where the spike goes into the holding bag.The affected tubing was the 1/2 venous tubing connection to bag and 3/8 arterial tubing to bag.The customer stated that there was potential contamination since tubing had no caps on the open ends.The device was used.There was no patient impact associated with this event.Medtronic received additional information which reported that less than 1 cc of blood loss occurred.A transfusion was not required because of the blood loss.No air was noted in the system/tubing when the leak was observed.The perfusionist said that they thought this issue had happened one other time, however specific details were not available.
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