Z-1307-2008
Impax 4.5, Impax 5.0, Impax 5.2 and Impax 5.2x Picture Archiving Systems (PACs) with integrated Voxar 3D...
AGFA Healthcare Corp. / initiated 2007-02-15 / Terminated / root cause: software
AGFA Corp. began a recall of Impax 4.5, Impax 5.0, Impax 5.2 and Impax 5.2x Picture Archiving Systems (PACs) with integrated Voxar 3D software; and Impax 5.0 and Impax 5.2 PACs with... on . The reason FDA records is "Misidentification: The orthopedic planning X-ray images for one patient are misidentified as the images for another patient". As of , the recall status on record is Terminated, and MDM tags the root cause as software.
Recall record
- Recall number
- Z-1307-2008
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- Posted
- Terminated
- Recalling firm
- AGFA Healthcare Corp.
- Product
- Impax 4.5, Impax 5.0, Impax 5.2 and Impax 5.2x Picture Archiving Systems (PACs) with integrated Voxar 3D software; and Impax 5.0 and Impax 5.2 PACs with integrated MediCAD software. The softwares are used to provide digital X-ray images for pre-surgical orthopedic planning. AGFA Corp., Greenville, South Carolina 29601
- Product code
- LLZ System, Image Processing, Radiological
- Reason for recall
- Misidentification: The orthopedic planning X-ray images for one patient are misidentified as the images for another patient.
- Root cause tag
- software
- FDA root cause
- Software design
- Action
- On 2/15/07, AGFA notified their consignees of the situation by sending them "Urgent Medical Device Correction" letters, instructing them on how to work around the problem until the firm was able to install the upgraded software that corrected the problem. On 12/11/2007, the firm reported that the upgraded software had been installed at all affected sites.
- Quantity in commerce
- 879 units
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution - USA including states of AR, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, NC, NJ, NV, NY, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA and WA, and country of Canada.
- Product codes and lots
- Hectec MediCAD: ETSAN; VOXAR 3D: L72JO; and Impax 4.5 or 5.0 or 5.2 Client /OT3000: A component of Order Codes: 60+00021533, 60+00021534, 60+00022471, 60+00022472, 60+00015451, 60+00015453, 60+00021535 and 60+00024519.
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