DELFI SINGLE USE VARIFIT TOURNIQUET CUFF SINGLE PORT SINGLE BLADDER CONTOUR THIGH CUFF WITH MATHCING LIMP...
Delfi Medical Innovations, Inc. began a recall of DELFI SINGLE USE VARIFIT TOURNIQUET CUFF SINGLE PORT SINGLE BLADDER CONTOUR THIGH CUFF WITH MATHCING LIMP PROTECTION SLEEVE Rx Only, Sterile on . FDA classified it as Class II and gives the reason as "Delfi Medical Innovations Inc has discovered that tourniquets cuffs in certain lots of the VariFit Sterile Single Use Thigh Cuffs, Single Port, Single Bladder models may have been manufactured with an inadequate...". As of , the recall status on record is Terminated, and MDM tags the root cause as manufacturing process.
Recall record
- Recall number
- Z-1902-2020
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- Posted
- Terminated
- Recalling firm
- Delfi Medical Innovations, Inc.
- Product
- DELFI SINGLE USE VARIFIT TOURNIQUET CUFF SINGLE PORT SINGLE BLADDER CONTOUR THIGH CUFF WITH MATHCING LIMP PROTECTION SLEEVE Rx Only, Sterile
- Product code
- KCY Tourniquet, Pneumatic
- Reason for recall
- Delfi Medical Innovations Inc has discovered that tourniquets cuffs in certain lots of the VariFit Sterile Single Use Thigh Cuffs, Single Port, Single Bladder models may have been manufactured with an inadequate perimeter weld on the cuff. Once applied to a patients thigh and inflated to a pressure to occlude blood flow in the thigh distal to the cuff, after a period of time the cuff may leak to the extent that the tourniquet instrument supplying air pressure to the cuff may not be able to adequately control and regulate pressure in the cuff. This may result in some blood flow in the thigh distal to the cuff.
- Root cause tag
- manufacturing process
- FDA root cause
- Process control
- Action
- On 4/3/2019, Delfi Medical Innovations sent a recall notification via E-Mail to consignees informing them about the recall. In addition, to informing consignees about the recall, the firm asked customers to take the following actions: 1. Communicate this notice to all those in your organization who need to be aware of its contents. 2. If your organization supplied or transferred any potentially affected product to another facility or organization, inform that facility/organization of the recall by providing a copy of this notice and the attached Customer Acknowledgement form. 3. Inspect your organization's stock and quarantine affected stock on hand to prevent further use. 4. Recover all quarantined quantities of the identified products in your organization's possession and from customers to which you distributed products and return them to Delfi for full credit and at Delfi's expense. 5. Complete the attached Customer Acknowledgement Form and email to Gail Rawle at [email protected] even if your organization does not have any affected stock. 6. If your organization supplied or transferred any potentially affected product to another facility or organization, email those facilities/organization completed Customer Acknowledgement Forms to Gail Rawle at [email protected] even if those facilities/organizations do not have any affected stock.
- Quantity in commerce
- 24 units
- Distribution
- US: Ohio OUS: Austrailia
- Product codes and lots
- 18J15
Enforcement reports
One row per recalled product line| Recall number | Class | Status | Voluntary or mandated | Report date | Classified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z-1901-2020 | Class II | Terminated | Voluntary: Firm initiated | ||
| Z-1902-2020 | Class II | Terminated | Voluntary: Firm initiated |
FIRST ARTICLE / WEEKLY
What cleared, what was recalled, and what changed in the standards. One edition a week for the people who make medical devices.
