BEUDAMED
    FDA Recall Terminated

    Brilliance CT 16-Slice Water, System Code: 728245; Brilliance CT 10-Slice Water, System Code: 728250; Brilliance CT 6-Slice Water, System Code: 728255; MX8000 IDT 16, System Code: 728120 & MX8000 IDT 10, System Code: 728125 Computed Tomography X-ray systems. Distributed by Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland), Inc., 595 Miner Road, Cleveland, OH 44143 Computed Tomography X-ray systems intended to produce cross-sectional images of the body by computer reconstruction of X-ray transmission data taken at different angles and planes. This device may include signal analysis and display equipment, patient, and equipment supports, components and accessories.

    Recall: Z-1338-2013 · Initiated March 12, 2013

    Recall

    Recall Number
    Z-1338-2013
    Event Number
    64713
    Firm
    Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc
    FEI Number
    1525965
    Product Code
    JAK
    Status
    Terminated
    Root Cause
    Use error
    Initiated
    March 12, 2013
    Posted
    May 20, 2013
    Terminated
    June 30, 2015
    Address
    595 Miner Rd, Cleveland, OH, 44143-2131

    Description

    Brilliance CT 16-Slice Water, System Code: 728245; Brilliance CT 10-Slice Water, System Code: 728250; Brilliance CT 6-Slice Water, System Code: 728255; MX8000 IDT 16, System Code: 728120 & MX8000 IDT 10, System Code: 728125 Computed Tomography X-ray systems. Distributed by Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland), Inc., 595 Miner Road, Cleveland, OH 44143 Computed Tomography X-ray systems intended to produce cross-sectional images of the body by computer reconstruction of X-ray transmission data taken at different angles and planes. This device may include signal analysis and display equipment, patient, and equipment supports, components and accessories.

    Reason

    Philips Healthcare received a report from the field stating when they viewed the CTDIVol information from the PACS system, the calculations were too high. Instead of storing the CTDIVol value for each slice in the DICOM tag, the system took the sum of all CTDIVol values from all the images in the dataset and stored this value in the DICOM tag, resulting in incorrect information.

    Action

    The firm, Philips Healthcare, sent an "Urgent - Medical Device Correction" letter dated March 15, 2013, to its consignees/customers. The letter described the product, problem and actions to be taken. The customers were instructed to disregard unusually higher CTDIvol value for Type-3 DICOM tag 0018:9345 in the PACS system, if seen. The firm is implementing software update versions 4.2.2 or 2.2.2 to correct the issue. A Philips Field Service Engineer will contact you to schedule the software installation at your site. If you need any further information or support concerning this issue, please contact your local Philips representative or local Philips Healthcare office. For North America and Canada contact the Customers Care Solutions Center (1-800-722-9377, Option 5: Enter Site ID or follow the prompts).

    Distribution

    Worldwide distribution: USA (nationwide) including states of: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV and WY; countries of: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom and Venezuela.

    Quantity

    515 units