CIOS ALPHA (2016-02-23)

Starting date:

February 23, 2016

Posting date:

March 10, 2016

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-57466

• Reason
• Affected products

Affected Products

1. CIOS ALPHA

Reason

Siemens is notifying customers of the following potential software issues with the Cios Alpha:

1. If the system language is set to English and the yyyymmdd date format is used, the patient's date of birth received through the DICOM worklist and query/retrieve will be displayed with month and day reversed for patients who have birthdays on days 1 through 12. Birth dates for days 13 through 31 are displayed correctly. The issue only appears to happen for days 1 through 12.
2. System crash may occur during DVD live recording if radiation is released while the DVD icon on the FLC status bar is blinking. In this case error messages will be displayed and a system reset is necessary.
3. Sporadically the system will not be ready for radiation during reconnection of the trolley to the main unit. A system reboot is necessary.

Affected products