The user facility reported that during extracorporeal circulation, an abnormal noise (sound of drawing in air) was generated from the positive pressure relief valve on the caipox custom pack involved.It was inferred that the noise was caused by the ball in the positive pressure relief valve.When a cap was put on it, the noise stopped; when the cap was removed, it started to make noise again.Therefore, the problem was solved by vibrating the positive pressure relief valve with a finger to shift the position of ball.The event occurred intra-operative.There was no patient injury/medical or surgical intervention required.The patient was not harmed.
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Patient identifier - requested, not provided.Age & date of birth - requested, not provided.Patient sex - requested, not provided.Weight - requested, not provided.Ethnicity - requested, not provided.Race - requested, not provided.Udi - not required for product code.Implanted date: device was not implanted.Explanted date: device was not explanted.Occupation - clinical engineer.Pma/510(k) - k130520.Visual inspection of the actual sample did not find any anomaly such as a breakage that could lead to the drawing in air in the appearance of the positive pressure relief valve and other sections.Review of the manufacturing record and the shipping inspection record of the actual sample confirmed that there were not any indications of anomaly in them.A search of the complaint file found no other similar report with the involved product code/lot number combination.Looseness of the cap connected to each port on the top of actual reservoir was confirmed.No looseness was found.After rinsing the actual sample, in order to confirm the event described in the reported issue, the inside of the reservoir was sucked with a vacuum pump and a negative pressure (maximum -150mmhg) was gradually applied to check for abnormal noise and drawing in air.As a result, no abnormal noise and drawing in air was found, and the event described in the reported issue could not be simulated.After disassembling the positive pressure relief valve of actual sample, magnifying inspection was performed for the internal state.No anomaly such as catching of foreign substance or breakage was found.Magnifying inspection of the ball taken out from the positive pressure relief valve of actual sample did not find any anomaly such as a deformation.Then, the dimension of ball was measured and compared it with a factory-retained product.No difference was found.Based on the investigation result, no anomaly such as catching of foreign substance or breakage was found in the positive pressure relief valve of actual sample that could lead to the drawing in air.As a cause of abnormal noise, it was inferred that there was a gap in the adhered section of positive pressure relief valve for some reason.However, it was not possible to identify the cause of occurrence from the condition of actual sample.(b)(4).
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