There was no patient involvement.Livanova (b)(4) manufactures the centrifugal pump 5 (cp5).The incident occurred in (b)(6).Video and pictures confirming the reported event have been provided.The cp5 control panel and the drive unit were requested by livanova for a dedicated investigation.A serial read-out of the cp5 control panel was performed: the reported error was confirmed.It was found that the centrifuge plug and the processor board were not right connected.However, despite the hardware deviation detected, during the functional test no deviations could be detected and the centrifuge worked without issues.
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Livanova received a report that two different faults in motor controller, related to the centrifugal pump unit, were displayed on the centrifugal pump 5 (cp5) control panel when the cable connecting the drive unit to the panel was slightly moved.Moreover, it could be possible to detect a change in the rpms when the cable was moved.The issue occurred during procedure.There was no report of patient injury.
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