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Device product

Dimension Vista 500 Intelligent Lab System or Dimension Vista 1500 Intelligent Lab System: 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.

Z-0838-2015

November 05, 2014

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.
Event
Event 69687
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
1,949
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-0838-2015

Official wording

Reason: Customer complaints of discrepant flagged and/or un-flagged patient and QC results. Reagent probe performance may decline more quickly than anticipated and have an effect on assays with similar formulations when processed sequentially on the same reagent server.

Code information: Material Nos.: 10284473, 10488224, 10444801, and 10444802

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

Derived failure modes

  • Unknown

    reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0

    Customer complaints of discrepant flagged and/or un-flagged patient and QC results. Reagent probe performance may decline more quickly than anticipated and have an effect on assays with similar formulations when processed sequentially on the same reagent server.