FDA Adverse Event Other Summary report: N

BLOM-SINGER

MDR report key: 876242 · Received July 5, 2007

Report

Report Number
2025182-2007-00003
Event Type
Other
Date Received
July 5, 2007
Date of Event
June 4, 2007
Report Date
July 3, 2007
Manufacturer
HELIX MEDICAL, LLC
Product Code
EWL
Report Source
Manufacturer report
Reporter Location
CA, US
Reporter Occupation
OTHER

Narratives

Additional Manufacturer Narrative · 1

WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR RETURN CONTACT FROM PT DR TO VERIFY IF DEVICE WAS FOUND. AT THIS TIME, THIS IS ALL THE INFO WE HAVE.

Description of Event or Problem · 1

RECEIVED PHONE CALL FROM PATIENT'S WIFE STATING THAT HER HUSBAND, THE PATIENT, "WAS COUGHING CONSTANTLY ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND HE COUGHS INTO A KLEENEX, FOLDS OVER AND COUGHS AGAIN INTO KLEENEX. HE DID NOT NOTICE THAT HIS VOICE PROSTHESIS WAS GONE UNTIL LATER THAT NIGHT. HE WENT TO EMERGENCY ROOM AND DR. USED SCOPE AND COULD NOT FIND THE PROSTHESIS IN HIS LUNGS." SHE ALSO STATED THAT "THEY ARE GOING TO DO AN MRI."

Devices

Seq Brand Generic Product Code Manufacturer Model Lot UDI-DI
1 BLOM-SINGER VOICE PROSTHESIS EWL HELIX MEDICAL, LLC NA UNK

Patients

Seq Age Sex Outcome Treatment
1 YR Required Intervention