BEUDAMED
    FDA Adverse Event Malfunction Summary report: N

    LIGACLIP** ENDOSCOPIC CLIP APPLIER

    MDR report key: 3223835 · Received July 12, 2013

    Report

    Report Number
    3005075853-2013-03538
    Event Type
    Malfunction
    Date Received
    July 12, 2013
    Date of Event
    July 3, 2013
    Report Date
    July 5, 2013
    Manufacturer
    ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC.
    Product Code
    FZP
    PMA / PMN Number
    K864102
    Removal / Correction Number
    NA
    Product Problem
    Yes
    Report Source
    Manufacturer report
    Reporter Location
    UK
    Reporter Occupation
    OTHER

    Narratives

    Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

    (B)(4): INFORMATION ANTICIPATED, BUT UNAVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.

    Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

    (B)(4). THE ANALYSIS RESULTS OF THE DEVICE FOUND THAT IT WAS RECEIVED WITH THE JAWS MISALIGNED.IN AN ATTEMPT TO REPLICATE THE REPORTED INCIDENT, THE DEVICE WAS TESTED FOR FUNCTIONALITY. UPON FIRING OF THE DEVICE, THE CLIPS WERE FED AS INTENDED; HOWEVER, DUE TO THE MISALIGNED CONDITION OF THE JAWS SCISSOR CLIPS WERE FORMED. POSSIBLE CAUSES FOR THE CONDITION FOUND MAY BE IF THE DEVICE IS CLOSED OVER AN EXISTING HARD OBJECT OR CLIP PLACING STRESS ON THE JAWS CAUSING THEM TO DISTORT OR YIELD AND NOT RETURN TO THEIR ORIGINAL DIMENSIONS/POSITION OR EXCESSIVE APPLICATION OF TORQUE TO THE JAWS WHEN POSITIONING THE DEVICE ON A VESSEL. THE BATCH RECORD WAS REVIEWED AND NO ANOMALIES WERE NOTED DURING THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS.

    Description of Event or Problem · 1

    IT WAS REPORTED THAT DURING A LAPAROSCOPIC NEPHRECTOMY PROCEDURE, ON SOME OCCASIONS WHEN FIRING THE DEVICE ON THE VESSELS, THE CLIPS DID NOT CLOSE. THERE WAS AN OCCASION ALSO THAT THE DEVICE WOULD NOT FIRE. NO PATIENT CONSEQUENCES REPORTED.

    Devices

    Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
    323144 LIGACLIP** ENDOSCOPIC CLIP APPLIER CLIP, IMPLANTABLE FZP ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. NA K4CP1V

    Patients

    Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
    1