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Device product

VITROS 3600 Immunodiagnostic System --- For use in the in vitro quantitative, semi-quantitative and qualitative measurement of a variety of analytes of clinical interest, using VITROS Immunodiagnostic Products Reagents. The VITROS Software is a part of the VITROS 3600, 4600, & 5600 Systems. The VITROS 3600, 4600, & 5600 Systems share the same software base. VITROS Sample Programming consists of Sample Identification (SID), test requests, and patient demographics. Patient demographics include patient name, address, date of birth, gender, physician, and patient identification (PID).

Z-2139-2014

July 07, 2014

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Event
Event 68790
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
Domestic: 142, Foreign: 536
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-2139-2014

Official wording

Reason: Ortho Clinical Diagnostics has identified an anomaly with VITROS System Software Version 3.0 and below. Internal testing confirmed that under very specific conditions, incorrect patient demographics were associated with a sample identification (ID) number.

Code information: Serial Numbers J36000101 - J36000806 (J Numbers are analogous to Serial Numbers and for VITROS 3600 systems the J Numbers start with 3600XXXX)

Distribution pattern: Worldwide Distribution-USA (nationwide) including Puerto Rico and the countries of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Singapore, Spain and Venezuela.

Derived failure modes

  • Device software or design

    reason.device_software_design · v1.0.0

    anomaly with VITROS System Software