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Event 61877

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
May 11, 2012
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Philips Healthcare Inc.

Dossier provenance

Source snapshots represented here

  • openFDA Device Enforcement Report-date coverage June 20, 2012–July 08, 2026 Known gap: openFDA describes 2004-present coverage, but the current export has no report-date records in this interval.
  • openFDA Device Recall event_date_initiated coverage June 01, 1997–June 30, 2026

Enforcement coverage uses report dates; product initiation dates can precede those bounds. Device-enrichment coverage uses FDA event_date_initiated.

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Philips Easy Diagnost Product Usage: Stationary Fluoroscopic system

Z-1821-2012
Recall number
Z-1821-2012
Initiated
May 11, 2012
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recalling firm
Philips Healthcare Inc.
Quantity
6

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
If a lead ruler is not positioned in the same plane as the anatomical image detail to be measured, measured object distances (using the ruler) can be wrong by a corresponding factor. If, additionally, the measurement tool is not used to check the ruler, or is used in the right way (ie: calibration), such calibration error is not detected. As a result of this, a surgical intervention may be execut

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Reason for recall

If a lead ruler is not positioned in the same plane as the anatomical image detail to be measured, measured object distances (using the ruler) can be wrong by a corresponding factor. If, additionally, the measurement tool is not used to check the ruler, or is used in the right way (ie: calibration), such calibration error is not detected. As a result of this, a surgical intervention may be execut

Code information

All systems with Eleva software version 4.x and stitching option.

Distribution pattern

6 US customers