Olympus medical systems corp.
(omsc) was informed that two patients developed sepsis after unspecified procedures using the subject device between january 5th, 2019, and january 15th, 2019.
The user facility conducted twelve cases of unspecified procedures using the subject device between january 5th, 2019 and january 15th, 2019 but no other infection was reported.
The device had been reprocessed with a non-olympus automated endoscope reprocessor, wd440pt (wassenburg), using peracetic acid.
The two patient's condition is currently unknown.
It was reported that the user facility conducted water tests on unspecified water between january 5th, 2019 and january 15th, 2019 and the testing result met a requirement.
However, other detailed information on the water tests was not provided at present.
It was also reported that the time between procedures and pre cleaning varies day to day.
(the times were reportedly from 15 minutes to over one hour) omsc is submitting two medical device reports according to the number of the patients.
This is one of two reports.
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