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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.

Z-1788-2013

June 13, 2013

Class I

Product summary

Firm
GE Healthcare, LLC
Event
Event 65579
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class I
Quantity
571
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-1788-2013

Official wording

Reason: 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.

Code information: System ID: 2998, 6970, 12865, 21414, 38070, 53263, 55461, 56948, 58230, 58378, 58379, 58483, 58510, 58582, 58622, 58630, 58711, 58785, 58797, 58808, 58810, 58871, 58883, 58919, 58958, 58993, 59012, 61061, 63422, 66515, 75074, 79722, 79966, 84636, 92635, 99691, 0850260033, 0850260034, 0850260035, 0850260038, 0850260040, 0850260041, 0850260042, 0850260046, 0850260048, 0850260054, 0850260057, 0850260062, 0853940029, 0853940068, 0853940069, 0853940077, 0853940078, 0853940080, 0853940082, 0856260014, 0856260019, 0910265011, 0910453006, 082426010009, 082426010010, 082426010011, 082426020002, 082426030009, 082426030010, 082426030015, 082426030016, 082426030018, 082426040016, 082426040020, 082426040021, 082426040024, 082426040025, 082426040026, 082426040029, 082426050001, 082426050002, 082426050003, 082426070014, 082426070015, 082426070016, 082426080006, 082426080007, 082426080009, 082426090013, 082426100017, 082426100019, 082426100020, 082426100023, 082426110002, 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Distribution pattern: Worldwide Distribution - US Nationwide including Guam, Puerto Rico and the countries of : Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea (Republic of), Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam.

Derived failure modes

  • Unknown

    reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0

    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.

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