Reported Nov 28, 2012 · Terminated

S-Lift Implant Guides (also known as S-LIF) Compressor Part Number: 11-50223 Product Usage: Surgical Guides allow a…

SpineFrontier, Inc.

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: SpineFrontier, Inc. · 500 Cummings Ctr Ste 3500 · Beverly, MA · 01915-6516

Is this the product you have?

  • S-Lift Implant Guides (also
  • known as S-LIF) Compressor Part Number11-50223
  • Product UsageSurgical Guides allow a surgeon to place implants into tight spaces, such as a vertebral disc space, without having the implant contact the surrounding bone or tissue. In the case of S-LIFT Implant Guides, they are used to place vertebral bodies into the disc space without the body contacting the superior or inferior vertebrae
Lot codes and dates
  • Lot Numbers012064-001
Amount recalled
19 units

This recall covers 2 products

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

Where it was sold

Why it was recalled

When using the optional S-LIFT (also known as S-LIF) Implant Guides without stops, there is a known risk of moving the Implant Guides, and possibly the implant, too far into the disc space creating the potential for injury to the patient. The instructions for Use for the S-Lift Implant Guides will be amended to add the following warning: "Care is to be taken to not over insert the Implant Guides

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 Jun 11, 2015 · Data as of Sep 19, 5:30 PM UTC

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