BEUDAMED
    FDA Adverse Event Injury Summary report: N

    BIOFIRE RESPIRATORY PANEL 2.1-EZ - EUA

    MDR report key: 11211288 · Received January 21, 2021

    Report

    Report Number
    3002773840-2021-00001
    Event Type
    Injury
    Date Received
    January 21, 2021
    Date of Event
    December 15, 2020
    Report Date
    January 21, 2021
    Manufacturer
    BIOFIRE DIAGNOSTICS, LLC
    Product Code
    QJR
    UDI-DI
    00815381020239
    PMA / PMN Number
    EUA202392
    Adverse Event
    Yes
    Report Source
    Manufacturer report
    Reporter Location
    LA, US
    Reporter Occupation
    OTHER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL

    Narratives

    Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

    INVESTIGATION: (B)(6) REPORTED TWO POTENTIAL FALSE NEGATIVE SARS-COV-2 RESULTS ON THE BIOFIRE RESPIRATORY PANEL 2.1-EZ (RP2.1-EZ). THE PATIENT WAS AN(B)(6) FEMALE WHO PRESENTED WITH A FEVER. THE PATIENT DID NOT HAVE ANY UNDERLYING CONDITIONS AND WAS NOT IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PRIOR TO TESTING. ON (B)(6) 2020, AT (B)(6), A NASOPHARYNGEAL SWAB (NPS) SAMPLE WAS COLLECTED AND TESTED ON THE BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ. THE TEST REPORTED HUMAN RHINOVIRUS/ENTEROVIRUS (HRV/EV) AS DETECTED. PATIENT TREATMENT INFORMATION FOR THIS VISIT IS UNKNOWN. ON (B)(6) 2020, A SECOND NPS SAMPLE WAS COLLECTED AT (B)(6) AND TESTED ON THE BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ. THE TEST AGAIN REPORTED HRV/EV AS DETECTED. THE TRANSPORT MEDIA TYPE USED FOR THE COLLECTION OF BOTH THE FIRST AND SECOND SAMPLES WAS REMEL MICROTESTTM M4RT® MULTI-MICROBE MEDIA. PATIENT TREATMENT INFORMATION FOR THIS VISIT IS AGAIN UNKNOWN. ON (B)(6) 2020, THE PATIENT WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT (B)(6) MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER ((B)(6)) WITH SEVERE SYMPTOMS. THE PATIENT WAS ADMITTED TO THE ICU DUE TO MULTISYSTEM FAILURE. A THIRD NPS SAMPLE WAS COLLECTED IN RUHOF VIRAL TRANSPORT MEDIUM AND TESTED ON A BIOFIRE® RESPIRATORY PANEL 2.1 (RP2.1) (EUA). THIS TEST REPORTED TWO ANALYTES AS DETECTED: HRV/EV AND SAR-COV-2. NO ADDITIONAL TESTING WAS PERFORMED ON ANY OF THE THREE SAMPLES COLLECTED, AND THE FIRST TWO SAMPLES COLLECTED AT (B)(6) ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR TESTING. BIOFIRE CONTACTED (B)(6) MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER AND WAS INFORMED THAT THE PATIENT'S OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS WAS PNEUMONIA DUE TO COVID-19, WITH URINARY TRACT INFECTION AND INFECTIOUS GASTROENTERITIS AND COLITIS. (B)(6) MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER STATED ON (B)(6) 2021 THAT THE PATIENT HAD NOT YET BEEN DISCHARGED, BUT HAD RECOVERED FROM "COMMUNITY SOURCES" AND HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED TO (B)(6) MEDICAL CENTER ((B)(6)) TO RECEIVE A HIGHER LEVEL OF CARE. (B)(6) PEDIATRICS ALLEGED THAT DUE TO THE (B)(6) 2020 BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ RESULTS, THE PATIENT'S CARE WAS DELAYED AND THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED MULTISYSTEM FAILURE. BIOFIRE ASKED (B)(6) MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER IF THE MULTISYSTEM FAILURE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ RESULTS AND WAS TOLD TO SPEAK TO THE PATIENT'S CARE PROVIDERS AT (B)(6). BIOFIRE HAS REACHED OUT TO (B)(6) FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EVENT AND HAS NOT RECEIVED A RESPONSE TO DATE. QUALITY CONTROL (QC) RECORDS FOR THE POUCH LOTS# 11F820 (BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ TESTS; KIT LOT# 2021820) & 915220 (BIOFIRE RP2.1 TEST; KIT LOT# 1886320) WERE REVIEWED. THESE POUCH LOTS PASSED QC CRITERIA AND WERE FOUND WITHIN SPECIFICATION. NO MALFUNCTION WAS OBSERVED AND THE FILMARRAY INSTRUMENTS (SERIAL# (B)(4), IN CHRONOLOGICAL TEST-DATE ORDER) WERE WORKING WITHIN DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS. CONCLUSION: AT THIS TIME, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT AN ERROR OCCURRED WITH THE (B)(6) 2020 BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ RESULTS. THE TWO SAMPLES COLLECTED AT (B)(6) UNDERWENT NO ADDITIONAL TESTING AND WERE NOT CONFIRMED TO HAVE SARS-COV-2. ADDITIONALLY, BOTH TEST RUN FILES SHOWED NO AMPLIFICATION OR MELT ACTIVITY FOR SARS-COV-2; SUGGESTING THAT, IF PRESENT, THE SARS-COV-2 ORGANISM/NUCLEIC ACID IN THE FIRST TWO SAMPLES WAS AT AN EXTREMELY LOW TITER AND BELOW THE BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ'S LIMIT OF DETECTION (LOD). THE RUN FILE OF THE (B)(6) 2020 BIOFIRE RP2.1 TEST, COLLECTED AT (B)(6) MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, SHOWED LATE AMPLIFICATION FOR SARS-COV-2 AND INDICATED THAT THE THIS SAMPLE HAD A LOW SAR-COV-2 CONCENTRATION THAT WAS NEAR THE TEST'S LOD. BASED ON THE RUN FILE INFORMATION OF ALL THREE BIOFIRE TESTS, IT IS LIKELY THAT UNTIL (B)(6) 2020, THE SAMPLE CONCENTRATION OF SAR-COV-2 WAS AT TOO LOW OF A LEVEL TO DETECT. IT IS ALSO LIKELY THAT HRV/EV (WHICH SHOWED ROBUST RUN FILE SIGNATURES IN EACH OF THE THREE TESTS) CONTRIBUTED TO THE PATIENT'S SYMPTOMS AT THE TIME OF TESTING. AS LISTED IN THE BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE [(B)(4)], ARCHIVED-SPECIMEN PERFORMANCE DATA FOR THE SARS-COV-2 ASSAY, AS COMPARED TO PREVIOUSLY-CHARACTERIZED EXPECTED RESULTS, SHOWED AN OVERALL PPA OF 98% (95% CI 89.3-99.6%) AND AN OVERALL NPA OF 100% (95% CI 92.7-100%) (TABLE 10). ONE FALSE NEGATIVE SPECIMEN WAS POSITIVE UPON RESTING. ARCHIVED CLINICAL SPECIMEN TESTING WAS COMPLEMENTED WITH TESTING OF 50 UNIQUE CONTRIVED CLINICAL SPECIMENS SPIKED WITH INACTIVATED SARS-COV-2 ISOLATE (B)(4) AT VARIOUS LEVELS OF LOD AND RANDOMIZED WITH TEN NON-SPIKED SPECIMENS. CONTRIVED SARS-COV-2 TESTING, AS COMPARED TO PREVIOUSLY-CHARACTERIZED EXPECTED RESULTS, SHOWED AN OVERALL PPA OF 100% (95% CI 92.9-100%) AND AN OVERALL NPA OF 100% (95% CI 72.2-100%) (TABLE 12). NOTE: A NEGATIVE BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ RESULT DOES NOT EXCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF VIRAL OR BACTERIAL INFECTION. NEGATIVE TEST RESULTS MAY OCCUR FROM THE PRESENCE OF SEQUENCE VARIANTS IN THE REGION TARGETED BY THE ASSAY, PRESENCE OF INHIBITORS, TECHNICAL ERROR, SAMPLE MIX-UP, OR AN INFECTION CAUSED BY AN ORGANISM NOT DETECTED BY THE PANEL. TEST RESULTS MAY ALSO BE AFFECTED BY CONCURRENT ANTIVIRAL/ANTIBACTERIAL THERAPY, OR LEVELS OF ORGANISM IN THE SPECIMEN THAT ARE BELOW THE LIMIT OF DETECTION FOR THE TEST. NEGATIVE RESULTS SHOULD NOT BE USED AS THE SOLE BASIS FOR DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, OR OTHER PATIENT MANAGEMENT DECISIONS. NEGATIVE RESULTS IN THE SETTING OF A RESPIRATORY ILLNESS MAY BE DUE TO INFECTION WITH PATHOGENS THAT ARE NOT DETECTED, SPECIMEN BELOW THE LOD, OR A LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION THAT IS NOT DETECTED BY AN NPS SPECIMEN.

    Description of Event or Problem · 1

    SUMMARY: (B)(6) REPORTED TWO POTENTIAL FALSE NEGATIVE SARS-COV-2 RESULTS ON THE BIOFIRE RESPIRATORY PANEL 2.1-EZ (RP2.1-EZ) (EUA) DURING PATIENT TESTING. THE CUSTOMER ALLEGED THAT DUE TO THE BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ RESULTS, APPROPRIATE CARE WAS DELAYED AND THE PATIENT EXPERIENCED MULTISYSTEM FAILURE. UPON INVESTIGATION, NO MALFUNCTION OCCURRED AND THE SYSTEM WAS WORKING WITHIN SPECIFICATION. THE INVESTIGATION CONCLUDED THAT THERE IS LIKELY NO ERROR WITH THE BIOFIRE RP2.1-EZ RESULTS, HOWEVER BIOFIRE IS REPORTING OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION BECAUSE THE CUSTOMER HAS ALLEGED PATIENT HARM.

    Devices

    Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
    103259 BIOFIRE RESPIRATORY PANEL 2.1-EZ - EUA BIOFIRE® RESPIRATORY PANEL 2.1-EZ - EUA QJR BIOFIRE DIAGNOSTICS, LLC 423883 2021820 00815381020239

    Patients

    Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
    1 8 YR Other