Model Number WA20810A |
Device Problem
Microbial Contamination of Device (2303)
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Patient Problem
No Known Impact Or Consequence To Patient (2692)
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Event Date 02/14/2018 |
Event Type
malfunction
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Manufacturer Narrative
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The device has not been returned to olympus medical systems corp.(omsc).The exact cause of the reported event could not be conclusively determined at this time.If additional information is received, this report will be supplemented.
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Event Description
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Olympus was informed that the subject device tested positive for staphylococcus warneri(3cfu/100ml) during routine surveillance culturing test by the facility.The portion of the subject device, where the microbes were detected, was not reported.The facility had reprocessed the subject device with anioxy-twin.There was no report of patient infection associated with this report.
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Manufacturer Narrative
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This supplemental report is being submitted to provide the device evaluation result.The subject device has not been returned to olympus medical systems corp.(omsc) but was returned to olympus (b)(4).(b)(4) sent the subject device to a third party laboratory for microbiological testing.As a result of additional microbiological testing by a third party laboratory, no microbe was detected from samples taken from all channels of the subject device.The testing result cleared the (b)(4) guideline.The exact cause of the reported phenomenon could not be conclusively determined.
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