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It was reported to hamilton medical ag, that: "overnight we had an issue with 2 of our hamilton ventilators when attempting to ventilate an intubated patient.The patient bagged well and was reviewed by anaesthetics to assess the ett, there were no identifiable issues with the tube or patient in terms of obstruction.Multiple alarms displaying were "exhalation obstruction" "high peep" "expiratory flow low"."
the customer noted that they could not troubleshoot the alarms.They tried two ventilators (sn: (b)(6) & sn: (b)(6) on two different circuits (both part 260128) with no success.Logs show that there are multiple instances of the following alarms: disconnection on patient side, exhalation obstructed & high peep on sn (b)(6).Patient involvement with medical intervention in the form of the patient being bagged and assessment of the ett was reported.However, no patient, user or third party harm was reported.
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