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Health product recall

Brilliance CT Big Bore System-Main Unit

Starting date:
April 6, 2017
Posting date:
April 21, 2017
Type of communication:
Medical Device Recall
Subcategory:
Medical Device
Hazard classification:
Type II
Source of recall:
Health Canada
Issue:
Medical Devices
Audience:
General Public, Healthcare Professionals, Hospitals
Identification number:
RA-63082

Reason

When a respiratory gated 40 CT scan is performed with the bellows pulmonary gating device, in some circumstances, the CT images might be reconstructed at a single phase, while the annotations on the images incorrectly indicate that the reconstruction is from the requested specific phases (0% to 90%).

Affected products

Brilliance CT Big Bore System-Main Unit

Lot or serial number

All lots

Model or catalog number

  • 728244

Companies

Manufacturer

Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc.

595 MINER ROAD

CLEVELAND

44143

Ohio

UNITED STATES