Reported Sep 4, 2013 · Terminated
GE Ultrasound ViewPoint 6. Product Usage: ViewPoint is intended to be used in medical practices and in clinical…
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 Ultrasound ViewPoint 6
- Product UsageViewPoint is intended to be used in medical practices and in clinical departments and serves the purposes of diagnostic interpretation of images, electronic documentation of examinations in the form of text and images and generation of medical reports primarily for diagnostic ultrasound. ViewPoint provides the user the ability to including images, drawings, and charts into medical reports. ViewPoint is designed to accept, transfer, display, calculate, store and process medical images and data, and enables the user to measure and annotate the images. The medical images, which ViewPoint displays to the user, can be used for diagnostic purposes. ViewPoint is intended for professional use only. ViewPoint is not intended to be used as an automated diagnosis system
- Lot codes and dates
software versions 6.26.2.16.3and 6.3.1
- Amount recalled
- 225
This recall covers 4 products
The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other 3 are below.
Where it was sold
- Nationwide
- PR
Why it was recalled
GE has recently become aware of a potential safety issue due to the incorrect calculation of the pulsatility index value (PIV) for venous flow measurements associated with obstetric reporting of the GE ViewPoint 6 system. The ViewPoint calculated Doppler PIV for veins could be incorrect. An incorrect calculation of the ductus venosus PIV could lead to false high risk for trisomy 13, 18, and 21,
This product could cause temporary or reversible health problems — stop using it.
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