Primus Anesthesia Machines, Perseus Anesthesia Machines (2019-05-14)

Starting date:

May 14, 2019

Posting date:

July 5, 2019

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-70363

Last updated: 2019-07-05

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  Reason
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  Affected products

Affected Products

1. Primus Anesthesia Machines
2. Perseus Anesthesia Machines

Reason

During the course of global product surveillance activities, cases in which gas monitoring was temporarily interrupted came to draeger's attention. Their analysis has shown that this deactivation is caused by excessively stringent monitoring of the sampling pumps that are used in the gas monitoring modules. During the course of their lifetimes, the characteristics of the sampling pumps change. Consequently, the probability of an unintended deactivation of gas monitoring correlates with the overall runtime of the sampling pumps.

Affected products