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Health product recall

Puritan Bennett Ventilator 840 (2013-12-06)

Starting date:
December 6, 2013
Posting date:
January 13, 2014
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-37467

Recalled products

  1. Puritan Bennett Ventilator 840

Reason

Covidien is taking voluntary corrective action in the field involving the Puritan Bennett 840 systems equipped with certain software revisions in response to reports by clients of diagnostic code XB0069, which results in an interruption in mechanical ventilation, owing to a software error. The frequency of occurrence of this code is extremely low.

Affected products

A. Puritan Bennett Ventilator 840

Lot or serial number

Not applicable

Model or catalog number
  • 4-840120DICU-EN
  • 4-840120DICU-FR
Companies
Manufacturer
Covidien LLC
15 Hampshire Street
Mansfield
02048
Massachusetts
UNITED STATES