BEUDAMED
    FDA Adverse Event Malfunction Summary report: N

    LIGACLIP** ENDOSCOPIC CLIP APPLIER

    MDR report key: 3231928 · Received July 17, 2013

    Report

    Report Number
    3005075853-2013-03595
    Event Type
    Malfunction
    Date Received
    July 17, 2013
    Report Date
    June 11, 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 Occupation
    OTHER

    Narratives

    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 CHOLECYSTECTOMY PROCEDURE, THERE WERE JAMMED CLIPS. NO FURTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE. NO PATIENT CONSEQUENCES REPORTED. PROCEDURE WAS COMPLETED WITH SAME LIKE DEVICE.

    Devices

    Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
    330704 LIGACLIP** ENDOSCOPIC CLIP APPLIER CLIP, IMPLANTABLE FZP ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, LLC. NA E4LW0J

    Patients

    Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
    1