Piccolo Xpress System - Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (2019-01-30)

Starting date:

January 30, 2019

Posting date:

June 7, 2019

Type of communication:

Medical Device Recall

Subcategory:

Medical Device

Hazard classification:

Type III

Source of recall:

Health Canada

Issue:

Medical Devices

Audience:

General Public, Healthcare Professionals, Hospitals

Identification number:

RA-70117

Last updated: 2019-06-07

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  Reason
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  Affected products

Affected Products

Piccolo Xpress System - Comprehensive Metabolic Panel

Reason

Abaxis is conducting a recall for specific lot numbers of the Piccolo Comprehensive Metabolic Panel Disks. Complaints were received from a small subset of customers experiencing values for the sodium assay running on average approximately 5 mmol/L higher than their reference method.

Affected products