GE Healthcare Varicam/VG and VG Hawkeye devices Product Usage: The… — Class I medical device recall Z-1788-2013
Terminated recall by GE Healthcare, LLC, reported 2013-07-31, distributed nationwide. GE became aware of an incident at a VA Medical Center facility in the US in which a patient died due to injuri
| Recall number | Z-1788-2013 |
|---|---|
| Product type | Medical device |
| Classification | Class I |
| Status | Terminated |
| Voluntary or mandated | Voluntary |
| Recalling firm | GE Healthcare, LLC, Waukesha, WI, United States |
| Recall initiated | 2013-06-13 |
| Classified | 2013-07-23 |
| Reported by FDA | 2013-07-31 |
| Terminated | 2014-06-19 |
| Distributed | Nationwide (US) |
| Countries outside the US | AF, AR, AT, AU, BE, BR, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CY, CZ, DE, DK, DO, DZ, EC, EG, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HK, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IR, IT, JO, JP, KR, KW, LB, LT, LV, MA, MT, MX, MY, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PT, RO, RU, SA, SE, SG, SK, TH, TN, TR, TW, UA, UY, VE, VN, ZA |
| Quantity | 571 |
| UPC / GTIN / UDI-DI | 00082426010009, 00082426040020, 00082426190008, 00082426210003, 00082426210010, 08302603135243, 08302621006334 |
Product
GE Healthcare Varicam/VG and VG Hawkeye devices Product Usage: The intended use of the Quasar system is to perform general Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures for detection of radioisotope tracer uptake in the patient body, using a variety of scanning modes supported by various acquisition typed and optional imaging features designed to enhance image quality in Oncology, Cardiology, Neurology and other clinical diagnostic imaging applications. The scanning modes include planar (Static, Multi-gated, Dynamic, Whole body scanning) and tomographic (SPECT, Gated SPECT, Whole body SPECT, Camera based PET). Acquisition types include single and multi-isotope/multi-peak frame/list mode single-photon and positron imaging. Optional imaging-enhancement features include assortment of collimators, gating by physiological signals, real-time automatic body contouring, and CT-based attenuation correction and functional anatomic mapping.
Reason for recall
GE became aware of an incident at a VA Medical Center facility in the US in which a patient died due to injuries sustained while being scanned on an Infinia Hawkeye 4 Nuclear Medicine System.
Machine access
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