Medtronic received information regarding a navigation device being used for a functional endoscopic sinus surgery (fess) procedure.The issue occurred intraoperatively while setting up equipment and delayed the surgery by less than one hour.It was reported that the monitor would not show imaged, it was just a black screen.The patient scans had been loaded onto the system in the morning with no difficulties, but when the system was brought into the room, the issue occurred.The system was rebooted, and the issue was resolved.The surgery was completed with navigation and there was no known impact on patient outcome.Medtronic representative reported that the site biomedical engineer opened the computer and found that the graphics card was failing.
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