Reported Oct 31, 2012 · Terminated

GE Discovery NM/CT670; GE Discovery NM 630 Product Usage: a medical tool intended for use by appropriately trained…

GE Healthcare, LLC

Moderate riskThis product could cause temporary or reversible health problems — stop using it.

What you should do

Stop using the affected lot and contact the recalling firm for the return or refund process. Check the FDA enforcement report for lot-level detail.

Firm contact: GE Healthcare, LLC · 3000 N Grandview Blvd · Waukesha, WI · 53188-1615

Is this the product you have?

  • GE Discovery NM/CT670
  • GE Discovery NM 630 Product Usagea medical tool intended for use by appropriately trained healthcare professionals to aid in detecting, localizing, diagnosing of diseases and organ function for the evaluation of diseases, trauma, abnormalities, and disorders such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders and cancer. The system output can also be used by the physician for staging and restaging of tumors, planning, guiding, and monitoring therapy. The GE Discovery NM/CT 670 system, combining Nuclear Medicine (NM) and Computed Tomography (CT) systems
  • is intended to produceNM
  • SystemGeneral Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures for detection of radioisotope tracer uptake in the patient body, using a variety of scanning modes supported by various acquisition types and imaging features designed to enhance image quality
Lot codes and dates
  • 209 of 209 codes

    • Mfg Lot or Serial # 21058
    • 21002
    • 21013
    • 21017
    • 21020
    • 21029
    • 21039
    • 21041
    • 21049
    • 21066
    • 21075
    • 21079
    • 21080
    • 21081
    • 21082
    • 21119
    • 21140
    • 21144
    • 21145
    • 21147
    • 21150
    • 96BH8
    • 21001
    • 21008
    • 21034
    • 21050
    • 21056
    • 21104
    • 21132
    • 22003
    • 22020
    • 22038
    • 210088
    • 21042
    • 21048
    • 21061
    • 21077
    • 21085
    • 21094
    • 21115
    • 21122
    • 21123
    • 21137
    • 21143
    • 22051
    • 21005
    • 21072
    • 21028
    • 21052
    • 21076
    • 21083
    • 21092
    • 21101
    • 21113
    • 21118
    • 21131
    • 21138
    • 21024
    • 22001
    • 22011
Amount recalled
210

This recall covers 6 products

The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other 5 are below.

Where it was sold

Why it was recalled

GE Healthcare has recently become aware of a potential safety issue associated with the table pallet of your Discovery NM/CT 670 and/or Discovery NM630 system which may impact operation safety. At scan setup, during gantry rotation towards scanning position, a potential contact between the table-pallet-edge and the detector was identified. Such occurrence may damage the pallet front-edge and

This product could cause temporary or reversible health problems — stop using it.

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Where this came from

Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration (openFDA)

Read the FDA (openFDA device enforcement) notice

Notice updated Nov 14, 2013 · Data as of Sep 19, 5:35 PM UTC

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