It was reported that while on patient treatment, the anesthesia workstation shutdown, rebooted and ended up in standby mode.The hospital personnel restarted the ventilation and continued the patient treatment without further issues.Final patient outcome was reported to be no injury.(b)(4).
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The investigation into this matter consists of the received device logs and the information received initially.We have not, despite multiple attempts, been able to obtain additional information regarding the status of the concerned anesthesia workstation.Nor have we obtained information stating if any cause of the reported event could be identified or if any parts needed to be replaced.The received event log shows that four cases were started on the reported event date.In one of these cases, a shutdown without a preceding standby was logged.After the shutdown, the workstation restarted and ended up in standby, where after the case was restarted by the user and the continued for approximately 80 minutes before the case was ended and the system was set to standby in a normal way.There were no issues during the time in ventilation.The shutdown and restart are logged as normal shutdown and restart by the user.No technical alarms preceded the shutdown.Successful sco: s were performed prior to and after the event.Based on the received information and logs that does not lead to any clear conclusion, we are unable to determine the true cause of the reported event.(b)(4).Ref.Exemption #: e2018003.(b)(4).Contact person: (b)(6).
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