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Device product

Dimension Vista 500 Intelligent Lab System and Dimension Vista 1500 Intelligent Lab System, analyzer, chemistry (photometric, discrete), for clinical use Product Usage: The Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Dimension Vista System is an in vitro diagnostic device intended to duplicate manual analytical procedures such as pipetting, mixing, heating, and measuring spectral intensities to determine a variety of analytes in human body fluids. Dimension Vista chemical and immunochemical applications use photometric, turbidimetric, chemiluminescence, nephelometric and integrated ion-selective multisensor technology for clinical use.

Z-1703-2017

March 03, 2017

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.
Event
Event 76690
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
2733 systems
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-1703-2017

Official wording

Reason: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has confirmed that in isolated cases when ECREA is processed immediately after the weekly automated Acid Clean routine during Probe Test, there is the remote potential for an elevation of greater than 15 percent in the ECREA result.

Code information: Device Listing D011374 Serial Number: All serial numbers

Distribution pattern: Worldwide Distribution - United States Nationwide and Puerto Rico, Canada, Qatar, Republic Korea, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Portugal.

Derived failure modes

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    reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0

    Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has confirmed that in isolated cases when ECREA is processed immediately after the weekly automated Acid Clean routine during Probe Test, there is the remote potential for an elevation of greater than 15 percent in the ECREA result.