| Model Number |
A37025A |
| Medical Device Problem Code |
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem (2993)
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| Health Effect - Clinical Codes |
Hemorrhage/Blood Loss/Bleeding (1888); Urinary Tract Infection (2120)
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| Date of Event |
11/02/2022
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Type of Reportable Event
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Serious Injury
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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The suspect medical device has not yet been returned to olympus for evaluation/investigation.Therefore, the exact cause of the patients' outcome and the reported phenomenon could not be determined and is being judged as unknown.However, if the suspect medical device is returned for evaluation/investigation or additional significant information becomes available, this report will be updated.
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Event or Problem Description
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Olympus was informed about a literature study that was conducted to predict stone free rate and complication rate following mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (m-pcnl) using the stone nephrolithometry score in 106 patients.The following patient impairment was recorded in the course of this study: [modified clavien grading grade i].Bleeding managed with single episode of nephrostomy clamp - 7 patients.Post-operative pain managed with opioid analgesics - 5 patients.Post-operative fever managed without change in antibiotics - 1 patient.Deranged renal function managed with iv fluids only - 1 patient.[modified clavien grading-grade ii].Post-operative fever managed with change in antibiotics - 6 patients.Culture-positive urinary tract infection - 1 patient.[modified clavien grading-grade iii a].Bleeding managed with multiple bladder irrigation/washout - 3 patients.Bleeding requiring multiple episodes of nephrostomy clamp>4 h apart - 1 patient.Pneumothorax managed with intercostal drainage - 1 patient.However, there was no report about a malfunction of an olympus device and no connection of an olympus device to an adverse event was reported in the literature.Please note that the named telescope was named as a representative device since the actual model number is unknown.
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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 device history record was unable to be reviewed for this device since the serial and/or lot 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 relationship between the device and the adverse event cannot be confirmed.There was no complaint reported on the subject device.There is no evidence of an olympus device malfunction.Therefore, the root cause cannot be determined.This supplemental report includes a correction to a1, b3, d8, e1, e2, e3 and g2 to provide information that was inadvertently not included on the initial medwatch.Olympus will continue to monitor field performance for this device.
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