FDA Adverse Event Malfunction Summary report: N

INTERSTIM II

MDR report key: 4122088 · Received September 26, 2014

Report

Report Number
3007566237-2014-02711
Event Type
Malfunction
Date Received
September 26, 2014
Date of Event
September 4, 2014
Report Date
September 4, 2014
Manufacturer
MEDTRONIC NEUROMODULATION
Product Code
EZW
PMA / PMN Number
P970004
Product Problem
Yes
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
SZ
Reporter Occupation
OTHER

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

CONCOMITANT MEDICAL PRODUCTS: PRODUCT ID 3058, SERIAL# (B)(4), IMPLANTED: (B)(6) 2014, PRODUCT TYPE: IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR. (B)(4).

Description of Event or Problem · 1

IT WAS REPORTED THERE WAS NO TELEMETRY POSSIBLE DURING IMPEDANCE TESTING AT THE TIME OF IMPLANT. ALL POSSIBLE CAUSES WERE RULED OUT, THEY HAD CHANGED PHYSICIAN PROGRAMMERS, "POSITION ON PATIENT, WITH AND WITHOUT PLUGGED ELECTRODE, IN AND OUT OF THE BODY, ECT.¿ A SECOND IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR (INS) WAS USED TO TRY AND GAIN TELEMETRY BUT TELEMETRY WAS NOT POSSIBLE. NOTHING HAD WORKED SO ALL POSSIBLE INTERFERENCE FIELDS AROUND THE PATIENT WERE CHECKED. AFTER REMOVAL OF THE ¿OP-LAMP (BERCHTOLD)¿ THE IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT WAS OKAY WITH BOTH NEUROSTIMULATORS. THERE WAS A PRODUCT ISSUE AND IT WAS RESOLVED. THE PATIENT WAS ALIVE WITH NO INJURY AT THE TIME OF THE REPORT AND THERE WERE NO PATIENT SYMPTOMS OR COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE EVENT.

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
600359 INTERSTIM II STIMULATOR, ELECTRICAL, IMPLANTABLE, FOR INCONTINENCE EZW MEDTRONIC NEUROMODULATION 3058

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 00070 YR