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| Health Effect - Clinical Code |
No Information (3190)
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| Date of Event |
03/31/2017
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Type of Reportable Event
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Serious Injury
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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On completion of the investigation a follow up report will be submitted.Associated mdr: 1219977-2017-00050.
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Event or Problem Description
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The stent was deployed.The physician went to remove the catheter from a terumo destination 7fr 90 cm sheath and the catheter was stuck and would not come out over a rosen 0.035 x 260 cm wire.After roughly five minutes of trying to remove the catheter, the hub became separated from the catheter.
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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Engineering investigation: the returned device was disinfected and evaluated to determine the cause of the complaint.Upon inspection the manifold had become completely detached from the catheter shaft.The catheter shaft had been necked down to a smaller diameter prior to the manifold detaching.This necked down area was measured and found to be.048"in.The shaft diameter at this location is typically.071"in.The balloon had been deployed during the procedure and was folded down from being in the introducer sheath.To determine if the balloon had been ruptured during the procedure the balloon was inflated using a tuohy borst adapter and the distal tip of the guidewire lumen was clamped.The balloon was inflated to 12atm without any leaks.A review of recent validations indicates that the force required to pull a manifold off of a catheter is a minimum of 8lbs.The specification currently in place is 3.37lbs.In all cases the catheter shaft broke and not the adhesive bond.This was also the case in the returned device.The catheter shaft had necked down and broke at the beginning of the adhesive bond within the manifold.The introducer sheath used in the case was not returned.The details provided indicate that this was a very complex case where a minimum of 6 stents were used including an endo-graft.A full review of the catheter lot history records for the devices in question was performed.The records indicate that this lot of catheters passed atriums final lot qualification testing.This inspection requires that the catheter lot must pass the following: ability of the stent and delivery system to be passed through the labeled introducer sheath.Ability to deploy the stent at nominal pressure (8atm).Ability to withdraw the deflated balloon catheter back through the labeled introducer sheath ability of the delivery system to withstand 5 inflate/deflate cycles at the rated burst pressure (12atm) without leaks or failures.Balloon burst testing.The balloon must burst over the rated burst pressure specified on the label (12atm).Result: all quality inspection samples passed this final inspection without any non-conformances noted during the final lot qualification testing.Conclusion: based on the details of the event and the successful lot qualification test data, atrium can find no fault with the lot of stent delivery systems in question.There is a possibility that the balloon was not fully deflated or the introducer sheath used in the case was damaged due to the amount of devices passed through the sheath.Clinical evaluation: if a catheter cannot be withdrawn back into a sheath and part of the component breaks off it may cause a procedural delay.There are several possibilities that could cause a piece of the device to break off including excessive manipulation and force or catching the delivery catheter on a piece of calcification or another implanted device.Occasionally, the catheter will catch on a defect on a damaged introducer sheath the instructions for use (ifu) state to not force passage or withdrawal of the guide wire or delivery system is resistance is encountered.The ifu also instructs to deflate the balloon by pulling vacuum on the inflation device to its maximum volume for 40 seconds and to verify full balloon deflation via fluoroscopy before proceeding.
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