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Z-0132-2009

Respiratory Gating System which includes: Pulmonary Digital Assembly Kit and Pulmonary Toolkit Oncology Pro...

Philips North America LLC / initiated 2008-09-22 / Terminated / root cause: manufacturing process

Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc began a recall of Respiratory Gating System which includes: Pulmonary Digital Assembly Kit and Pulmonary Toolkit Oncology Pro, Model #455011203131 and Model #455011203191 on . The reason FDA records is "Images not correlated: A leak between the Tube Interface and the Outlet Tube of the transducer may result in a failure to produce respiratory correlated images". As of , the recall status on record is Terminated, and MDM tags the root cause as manufacturing process.

Recall record

Recall number
Z-0132-2009
Status
Terminated
Initiated
Posted
Terminated
Recalling firm
Philips North America LLC
Product
Respiratory Gating System which includes: Pulmonary Digital Assembly Kit and Pulmonary Toolkit Oncology Pro, Model #455011203131 and Model #455011203191.
Product code
KPS System, Tomography, Computed, Emission
Reason for recall
Images not correlated: A leak between the Tube Interface and the Outlet Tube of the transducer may result in a failure to produce respiratory correlated images.
Root cause tag
manufacturing process
FDA root cause
Process design
Action
On 9/8/2008 Philips Medical Systems sent recall notification letters to their customers requesting they inventory their stock. They sent instructions to verify that the product is working properly. They are also sending Field Service Engineers to each customer to conduct field test.
Quantity in commerce
507 units
Distribution
Worldwide distribution: USA, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and Thailand.
Product codes and lots
All units of Model numbers 455011203131 and 455011203191.