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It was reported by the china food and drug administration (cfda), adverse reaction event center of shanghai, and not reported directly to medtronic by the customer that while in use on a patient, the 840 ventilator generated a safety valve open (svo) error.The patient was removed from the ventilator and placed on an alternate ventilator without injury.
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H3: device evaluation summary: medtronic conducted an investigation based upon all information received.It was reported by the china food and drug administration (cfda), adverse reaction event center of shanghai, and not reported directly to medtronic by the customer that while in use on a patient, the pb840 ventilator generated a safety valve open (svo) error.The device was not available for evaluation.The device was not made available to medtronic for evaluation.The repair was performed by a third party service person by replacing the air proportional solenoid (psol).The cause of the event was isolated in the field to a potential fault in the air psol.The event is included in the trending and monitoring plan.Medtronic submits this report to comply with fda regulations 21 cfr parts 4 and 803.Medtronic has made reasonable efforts to provide as much relevant information as is available to the company as of the submission date of this report.This report does not constitute an admission or a conclusion by fda, medtronic, or its employees that the device, medtronic, or its employee caused or contributed to the event described in the report.Any required fields that are unpopulated are blank because the information is currently unknown or unavailable.Medtronic will submit a supplemental report if additional relevant information becomes known.
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