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Event 71362

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
May 19, 2015
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.

Dossier provenance

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  • 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

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CentraLink" Data Management System; software is a network solution provider and multi-system data manager for the instruments and lab automation systems (LAS) within the lab. The CentraLink software consolidates data from all connected instruments so that an operator can review and edit patient and quality control results from a single location.

Z-1957-2015
Recall number
Z-1957-2015
Initiated
May 19, 2015
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Quantity
1941

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has determined that the sample query function that includes Instrument or Instrument Group as search criteria may not return all samples from the Dimension Vista systems if onboard aliquot support rules are configured in the CentraLink system.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

Official device-enrichment evidence · Unknown

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Reason for recall

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has determined that the sample query function that includes Instrument or Instrument Group as search criteria may not return all samples from the Dimension Vista systems if onboard aliquot support rules are configured in the CentraLink system.

Code information

Product: Siemens CentraLink Data Management System, v14.0.5 Material Number (SMN)10811741, 10811742, 10811743, 10814298, 10814877, 10814880,10814881, Product: CentraLink Data Management System, v14.0.8 Material Number (SMN)10815474, 10816519, 10816520, 10816521, 10816522, 10816523, 10816524, 10817180, 10817181

Distribution pattern

Worldwide Distribution - Nationwide Distribution and to the countries of : Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom.