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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 |
05/01/2024
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Type of Reportable Event
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Malfunction
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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The customer has provided instrument files and print outs.Investigation is underway.The cause of this event is unknown.
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Event or Problem Description
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Customer reported that their stratus cs produced a false positive toponin (ctni) result.Although a false positive ctni results were alleged the customer has not provided the true or expected result for comparison.Initial result of 0.10 ng/ml was generated and repeat the was 0.14 ng/ml.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.No product problem identified.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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