Reported Jul 31, 2013 · Terminated

Optima NM/CT 640 Product Usage: The GE Optima NM/CT 640 system is intended for General Nuclear Medicine imaging…

GE Healthcare, LLC

High riskUsing this product could cause serious injury, illness or death — stop using it now.

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?

  • Optima NM/CT 640 Product UsageThe GE Optima NM/CT 640 system is intended for General Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures for detection of radioisotope tracer uptake in the patient body. It includes a general purpose Nuclear Medicine (NM) system using a variety of scanning modes supported by various acquisition types, and a CT component which is intended specifically for enabling attenuation correction and anatomical localization on SPECT studies
Lot codes and dates
  • System ID
    • 0910263253
    • 0910263256
    • 00139NUC08
    • 00162NUC11
    • 030232NU15
    • 215728OPT640
    • 262574O640
    • 270956NM640
    • 410543NUC640
    • 715735OPT1
    • 717782640NM
    • 808485NM640
    • 815564O640
    • 816234D640
    • 817250NM640
    • 847872O640
    • 901516GO640
    • 915839NU01
    • 928214NMCT
    • A5366308
    • A5639613
    • BD003NU01
    • DK1054NM03
    • RTD0782
    • XM203401
Amount recalled
25

This recall covers 7 products

The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other 6 are below.

Where it was sold

Why it was recalled

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GE became aware of an incident at a VA Medical Center facility in the US in which a patient died due to injuries sustained while being scanned on an Infinia Hawkeye 4 Nuclear Medicine System. UPDATE: On July 03, 2013 GE notified hospitals that they are recalling several Nuclear Medicine Imaging Systems because serious injuries or deaths could occur due to the failure mode associated with this re

Using this product could cause serious injury, illness or death — stop using it now.

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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 19, 2014 · Data as of Sep 19, 4:51 PM UTC

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