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Lumenis investigated the reported event by contacting the user facility directly.Attempts by emails and phone calls have been made to obtain; patient treatment settings, patient information and patient photo.Incident form and patient photo has been received in lumenis.There is no allegation of a system malfunction.The device was installed on (b)(6) 2009 and is billable.No pm information in lumenis as this system was under distributor (b)(4).Lumenis highly recommends an annual pm check in a timely manner to assure continued proper operation of the device.Initiative and payment for that lies on customer's responsibility.After several attempts to schedule a service visit in the clinic, no response received from the customer.As there is no allegation and no confirmed malfunction in a system, it can be determined that the device malfunction wasn't the suspected cause of the adverse event.Therefore, per the canadian decision tree, this case is not reportable to cmdr in canada.Clinical evaluation wasn't performed, since no incident form or photos were sent to lumenis.While the information received to date does not confirm that a serious injury nor malfunction had occurred, because of the lack of information lumenis is reporting the event in an 'abundance of caution' to the fda.Should additional significant information become available, the complaint record will be updated accordingly, and a follow-up medwatch report will be submitted.Per the canadian decision tree, this case is not reportable to cmdr in canada.Lumenis is closing this complaint but will continue to monitor this failure mode; complaint trending will continue to monitor per global complaint handling sop (doc no.(b)(4) and per post marketing surveillance procedure (doc no.(b)(4)).
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