The customer reported that while the iabp was in use on a patient, the iabp generated a "blood detected" alarm.20 minutes after the alarm the caregiver rebooted the iabp and the therapy continued without any problems.The caregiver took 20 minutes to reinitiate the therapy because he was trying to confirm there was no kink in the iab tubing or visual blood in the iab circuit.Thirty-six (36) minutes after the iabp was rebooted, the patient died.The customer caregiver (surgeon) is not attributing the patient's death to the pump event, however the hospital's safety management committee believes since the iab therapy was interrupted for 20 minutes, it might have contributed to the patient's death.The customer provided the pre-existent medical history of the patient: the patient was hospitalized in a different hospital under treatment for his leg, details of the disease is unknown.The patient suffered cardiopulmonary arrest twice in the past, and received resuscitation each time.When the patient was transferred to the hospital where the reported event occurred on (b)(6), the patient condition was ventricular fibrillation, and the surgeon was considering icd.On (b)(6) 2016, the patient was in cardiac arrest and was transferred from a different hospital; pcps was started and iab therapy also started.On (b)(6) 2016, pcps was weaned; iab therapy continued and external pacemaker was used.On (b)(6) 2016, the reported event occurred.
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