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P20-0950 |
| Medical Device Problem Code |
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem (2993)
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| Health Effect - Clinical Code |
Pneumothorax (2012)
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| Date of Event |
03/27/2018
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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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The sample is reported to be available, but has not yet been received by the manufacturer.A review of the device history record is in-progress.All information reasonably known as of 01-may-2018 has been included in this health authority report.Should additional information be obtained, a follow-up health authority report will be provided.The information provided by halyard health represents all of the known information at this time.Despite good faith efforts to obtain additional information, the complainant / reporter was unable or unwilling to provide any further patient, product, or procedural details to halyard health.Halyard health has no independent knowledge of the event reported but is relaying the information that was provided by the user facility where the incident occurred.This product incident is documented in the halyard health complaint database and identified as complaint (b)(4).This information is the device was not returned.
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Event or Problem Description
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It was reported a pneumothorax was discovered after the nasogastric tube (ngt) placement.The tracing on the cortrak device showed some deviation to the right of the display.The patient experienced shortness of breath with coughing so an x-ray was performed.The x-ray revealed a right lung pneumothorax.A chest tube was placed and a pigtail catheter was inserted to aid in resolving the pneumothorax.The patient was transitioned to comfort only measures, however this was not related to the pneumothorax.No additional information was provided.
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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All information reasonably known as of (b)(6) 2018 has been included in this health authority report.Should additional information be obtained, a follow-up health authority report will be provided.The information provided by halyard health represents all of the known information at this time.Despite good faith efforts to obtain additional information, the complainant/reporter was unable or unwilling to provide any further patient, product, or procedural details to halyard health.Halyard health has no independent knowledge of the event reported but is relaying the information that was provided by the user facility where the incident occurred.This product incident is documented in the halyard health complaint database and identified as complaint (b)(4).This information is submitted pursuant to 21cfr803, in compliance with the medical device reporting requirement and should not be considered to be an admission that a halyard health product is defective or caused serious injury.
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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The results of the device history records noted the process has not changed for the manufacturing of the cortrak unit.Unit 1301040 passed all required inspections and was working as expected prior release.1 cortrak unit was returned with the original case shipper.The following components were returned with the monitor unit: sru - lot number 1301061, interconnect cable, battery pack, power cord.The monitor unit was inspected for damages and breakages, there were no breakages or damages found on the blue housing and orange button.Placement evaluation was started by attaching the returned monitor unit, sru, interconnect cable to the lab's anatomical model, transmitting stylet.Functional testing of the unit indicates that the unit worked as intended.The smart receiver unit was able to communicate with the monitor unit, interconnect cable, transmitting stylet, anatomical model and performed self-test without any failures.The led on the sru was illuminating green all the time and all performed green for simulated placement.The smart receiver unit was able to provide an accurate deployment of the transmitting stylet tip during the entire placement, without any failures.After the setup of the cortrak system and the completion of the initialization and testing, the functionality of the unit performed as intended.A root cause could not be identified.All information reasonably known as of 02-jul-2018 has been included in this health authority report.Should additional information be obtained, a follow-up health authority report will be provided.The information provided by halyard health represents all of the known information at this time.Halyard health has no independent knowledge of the event reported but is relaying the information that was provided by the user facility where the incident occurred.This product incident is documented in the halyard health complaint database and identified as complaint (b)(4).
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