H11: section a through f - the information provided by bd represents all of the known information at this time.Despite good faith efforts to obtain additional information, the complainant / reporter was unable or unwilling to provide any further patient, product, or procedural details to bd.The following were reviewed as part of this investigation: patient severity, complaint and lot history review, applicable previous investigation(s), sample (if available), applicable manufacture records, and applicable fmea documents.Based on a review of this information, the following was concluded: the complaint of missing depth markers is confirmed and was determined to be manufacturing related.One photograph of a groshong clearvue catheter was returned for evaluation.An initial visual observation of the photograph showed the catheter inserted into a patient.The ink of the depth markers was observed to be completely missing on about a 7 cm portion of the catheter distal to the 40 cm depth marker.The missing depth markers were most likely due to a misprint during the manufacturing process.The investigation was forwarded to the manufacturing facility for further evaluation, and bd is working closely with the manufacturing facility to prevent recurrence of the reported event.
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