RAPIDPoint 500 Blood Gas Analyzer, Siemens Material Numbers (SMN):10492730, 10696855, 10696857, 10697306 This system tests blood gases, electrolytes, metabolites, total hemoglobin, and hemoglobin derivatives in arterial, venous, and capillary whole blood samples.

Reason: When both ports (Serial and Ethernet) are configured to transmit data, the data stream from one port could potentially affect the data stream from the other port causing the data management system to include either: duplicate data, missing data, or data from a different patient.

Code information: Units shipped between the dates Oct 2011 - June 2015 and within the serial range of 30003-37040 not inclusive.

Distribution pattern: Worldwide Distribution - US (nationwide) Distribution and to the countries of : Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia Herzeg, Brazil, Bulgaria,Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany,Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands. New Zealand, Norway, P.R. China, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic Korea, Romania, Russian Fed, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, U.A.E., United Kingdom and Vietnam.