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