Reported Mar 19, 2014 · Terminated

GE Healthcare Infinia and Infinia Hawkeye Nuclear Medicine Systems. For Dual-Head Variable Angle Gamma Camera, Hawkeye…

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 Healthcare Infinia and Infinia Hawkeye Nuclear Medicine Systems. For Dual-Head Variable Angle Gamma Camera, Hawkeye Option for Dual-Head Variable Angle Gamma Camera (this includes GE Quasar Nuclear Medicine Systems). Nuclear Medicine
  • Systems Infinia devices Product UsageThe intended use of the Quasar system is to perform general 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 optional imaging features designed to enhance image quality in Oncology, Cardiology, Neurology and other clinical diagnostic imaging applications
Lot codes and dates
  • Serial Numbers for all devices

    3,062 of 3,062 codes

    • 22
    • 343
    • 1002
    • 1003
    • 1006
    • 1007
    • 1008
    • 1010
    • 1012
    • 1013
    • 1016
    • 1018
    • 1019
    • 1021
    • 1025
    • 1026
    • 1027
    • 1034
    • 1035
    • 1038
    • 1039
    • 1042
    • 1043
    • 1046
    • 1056
    • 1058
    • 1060
    • 1061
    • 1065
    • 1066
    • 1069
    • 1072
    • 1073
    • 1074
    • 1075
    • 1076
    • 1078
    • 1080
    • 1081
    • 1085
    • 1086
    • 1091
    • 1095
    • 1099
    • 1100
    • 1101
    • 1101
    • 1102
    • 1105
    • 1106
    • 1107
    • 1110
    • 1111
    • 1112
    • 1116
    • 1118
    • 1119
    • 1126
    • 1132
    • 1141
Amount recalled
3062 units (1182 US, 1880 OUS)

This recall covers 5 products

The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other 4 are below.

Where it was sold

Why it was recalled

Potential safety issue related to unintended radial detector motion, which may occur during patient setup or at the end of a patient scan. This failure mode has been observed on a single system, in which the detector moved to the home position and then slowly starting drifting inward toward the patient. This generated both a visual and audio alert condition on both the console and the gantry. N

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 3, 2014 · Data as of Sep 19, 6:15 PM UTC

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