| Model Number |
ADVIA 1800 CHEMISTRY - LIPASE (LIP) |
| Medical Device Problem Code |
Imprecision (1307)
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| Health Effect - Clinical Code |
No Known Impact Or Consequence To Patient (2692)
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| Date of Event |
11/29/2019
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Type of Reportable Event
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Malfunction
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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Siemens healthcare diagnostics, inc.Has received customer complaints regarding failed calibrations and increased imprecision of quality control and patient samples when using advia chemistry lipase reagent lot 485700.Preliminary investigation has indicated that not all cartons within this reagent lot are impacted.An urgent medical device recall (umdr) chc 20-03.A.Us was sent to us customers and an urgent field safety notice (ufsn) chc 20-03.A.Ous was sent to ous customers in december 2019.The umdr and ufsn advise customers of the investigation with the advia chemistry lipase reagent lot 485700 and provide instructions to help determine if the lipase reagent cartons in their inventory are impacted.If the cartons in the customers inventory are not impacted, the customers are instructed to proceed to using the cartons according to the instructions for use.If the cartons in the customers inventory are impacted, the customers are instructed to discard the impacted cartons and can request replacement.The next reagent lot is expected to be available by february 2020.If replacement kits are not available, customers are instructed to test patient samples using an alternate methodology.
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Event or Problem Description
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On 1-dec-2019, the customer observed calibration failures due to reagent blank limit (rbl) failures while using lipase (lip) lot #485700 (received by the customer on 25-oct-2019) with advia 1800 chemistry system.The customer used another pack of lip lot #485700 (received by the customer on 29-nov-2019) and obtained a successful calibration.The last reagent pack was used for patient quality and control (qc) testing without issue.The customer alleged that no patient and qc results were affected by the initial calibration issue with lip lot #485700.The customer did not provide any patient and qc results.There are no known reports of patient intervention or adverse health consequences due to the calibration issue with the lip reagent.
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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The initial mdr 2432235-2020-00017 was filed on 9-jan-2020.Correction (14-jan-2020): the date of first event is (b)(6) 2019.The date of first event is not (b)(6) 2019.Corrected information from (b)(6) 2020.
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Search Alerts/Recalls
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