| Catalog Number |
10444834 |
| Medical Device Problem Code |
False Positive Result (1227)
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| Health Effect - Clinical Code |
No Clinical Signs, Symptoms or Conditions (4582)
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| Date of Event |
02/24/2024
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Type of Reportable Event
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Malfunction
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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Siemens has requested more information and instrument files for investigation.Investigation is underway.The cause of this event is unknown.
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Event or Problem Description
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The customer reported that they received a false positive troponin result on one patient compared to retesting of the same sample on the same instrument and their laboratory instrument.There is no report of injury due to this event.
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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A review of the system check and error log along with the calibration and quality control data for the lot in use at the time of the event demonstrated the instrument and reagent were working as intended.A review of the manufacturing release data for the lot demonstrated acceptable performance, nothing atypical was observed.It should be noted that the comparative instrument is considered a high sensitive troponin method while the stratus cs is considered a traditional method, therefore differences may be noted.The cause of this event is unknown.
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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Siemens healthineers diagnostics has identified, through customer complaints, an increased occurrence of random non-repeatable false positive cardiac troponin (ctni) results at any point during the testpak¿s shelf life when using the stratus cs ctni acute care testpak.This means some ctni values for samples that are expected to fall within the 99th percentile of the reference population (per the instructions for use: 0.00 - 0.07 ng/ml [g/l]) may exceed this range.This issue can impact results.The stratus cs were confirmed to display false positive ctni results without alerting the user.The data revealed the maximum positive bias is 0.42 ng/ml with an average bias of 0.14 ng/ml when repeated on stratus scs platform.Siemens has released a field action (poc 25-006) "false positive ctni results for acute care ctni testpak" to inform customers of the issue and provide mitigation options.Crr#: 3002637618-03-31-2025-002-c.H6 c22: the issue was confirmed but the cause of the elevated rate of false positive ctni is unknown.
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