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Event 71530

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
June 17, 2015
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Zimmer, 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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device · product 1 of 1

ZNN Antegrade Femoral Nail (ZNN AF). Orthopedic internal fixation device.

Z-2060-2015
Recall number
Z-2060-2015
Initiated
June 17, 2015
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recalling firm
Zimmer, Inc.
Quantity
8

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
A single distributed ZNN Greater Trochanter Femoral Nail may have been dented. Potential for fatigue of implant prior to sufficient fracture healing, which may result in need for implant removal and revision of fracture fixation to assure proper healing and avoid fracture malunion or nonunion.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

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Reason for recall

A single distributed ZNN Greater Trochanter Femoral Nail may have been dented. Potential for fatigue of implant prior to sufficient fracture healing, which may result in need for implant removal and revision of fracture fixation to assure proper healing and avoid fracture malunion or nonunion.

Code information

Part 47-2492-320-10; lot 62763724

Distribution pattern

Worldwide distribution. US states of NC and AK; Taiwan, Japan, and Germany.