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This complaint has been evaluated based on the information provided; customer reported that during an angio-lower limb exam involving a slightly obese patient, an error has occurred indicating that the ctdivol exceeds the 250mgy limit, and the requested acquisition cannot be performed due to system limitations.Customer adjusted the protocol parameters, specifically decreased the mas and slowing down the rotation time, however, errors persisted.Customer reports that the patient was in ¿urgent and serious condition¿ and ¿the patient was traumatized.Patient was then transferred to a different hospital to complete the exam.The patient is currently hospitalized per doctor¿s instruction.No other clinical information is available at this time.Based on the available information, this issue has been initially determined to be a reportable event.
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This complaint has been evaluated based on the information provided; customer reported that during an angio-lower limb exam involving a slightly obese patient, an error has occurred indicating that the ctdivol exceeds the 250mgy limit, and the requested acquisition cannot be performed due to system limitations.Customer adjusted the protocol parameters, specifically decreased the mas and slowing down the rotation time, however, errors persisted.Customer reports that the patient was in ¿urgent and serious condition¿ and ¿the patient was traumatized.Patient was then transferred to a different hospital to complete the exam.The distributor (issue submitter) confirmed that the patient was recovered and no longer hospitalized.This report has been investigated by the philips complaint handling team.It is confirmed that this error message is a fail-safe design to avoid unnecessary excessive radiation to the patient.The emea helpdesk escalation manager along with the clinical specialist provided their further explanation about this event.Based on available information, the team concluded that the error message popped up during the exam indicated that there was a limit, which was not an error.Customer should decrease mas or slow the rotation time, however, due to lack of knowledge or due to lack of training, the customer was not able to adapt the parameters.With the available information, it is concluded that the ct system works as designed, there's no malfunction identified in this complaint.To avoid unnecessary excessive radiation to the patient, when the accumulated ctdivol for the planned perfusion or axial scans exceeds 250mgy, ct system will default to pop up warning message to the user before scan.In this complaint, it shows that this mitigation is effective.Besides, if the system pops up message, the user can provide name and password to continue proceeding the scan.Therefore, there was no hazard/hazardous situation identified in this complaint.
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