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Device product

Integra Small Rickham -Style Reservoir Rx Only Sterile for Single Use Only Integra NeuroSciences 311 Enterprise Drive Plainsboro, NJ 08536 USA Made in the USA NL 850-1121 Provides access to the lateral cerebral ventricles via hypodermic puncture. It is useful in obtaining CSF (cerebral spinal fluid_ samples for cytological and chemical studies, for monitoring ventricular fluid pressure and for ventricular drainage. The reservoir provides easy access to the lateral ventricles and to cystic tumors for the injections of chemotherapeutic agents and/or radio-isotopes. The rickham reservoir may be utilized in hydrocephalic patients as a component in systems designed to shunt CSF from the lateral ventricles into either the right atrium of the heart of the peritoneum.

Z-0621-2014

November 13, 2013

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Integra LifeSciences Corp.
Event
Event 67025
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
194 packages
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-0621-2014

Official wording

Reason: Integra became aware through an adverse complaint trend that Rickham Style Reservoirs with bent or broken connectors that were shipped in sleeve-type package were found prior to use but after the sterile package was open

Code information: 1091271, 1094671, 1104165, 1104631, 1104813, 1110404, 1120638, 1120816, 1122316, 1123940, 11311659, 1132989, 1133427

Distribution pattern: Worldwide Distribution - USA including FL, NE, WI, WA, CT, ND, AL, NY, NH, OR, OK, MN, and TX. Internationally to Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Great Britian, Italy, Poland, and Portugal.

Derived failure modes

  • Sterility assurance

    reason.sterility_assurance · v1.0.0

    sterile package was open