Reported Sep 24, 2014 · Terminated

The Brilliance CT Big Bore is a whole-body Computed Tomography X-ray system intended to produce cross-sectional images…

Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) 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: Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc · 595 Miner Rd · Cleveland, OH · 44143-2131

Is this the product you have?

  • The Brilliance CT Big Bore is a whole-body Computed Tomography X-ray system intended to produce cross-sectional images of the body by computer reconstruction of X-ray transmission data from the same axial plane taken at different angles. Model Numbers 728244 and 728243.
Lot codes and dates
  • 265 of 265 codes

    • System Code #
    • 728243
    • 728244
    • Serial #: 7022
    • 7118
    • 7151
    • 7298
    • 7343
    • 7360
    • 7361
    • 7362
    • 7363
    • 7364
    • 7365
    • 7366
    • 7367
    • 7368
    • 7369
    • 7370
    • 7371
    • 7372
    • 7373
    • 7374
    • 7375
    • 7376
    • 7377
    • 7378
    • 7379
    • 7380
    • 7381
    • 7382
    • 7383
    • 7384
    • 7385
    • 7386
    • 7387
    • 7388
    • 7389
    • 7390
    • 7391
    • 7392
    • 7393
    • 7394
    • 7395
    • 7396
    • 7397
    • 7398
    • 7399
    • 7400
    • 7401
    • 7402
    • 7403
    • 7404
    • 7405
    • 7406
    • 7407
    • 7408
    • 7409
    • 7410
    • 7411
Amount recalled
257

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

Philips Healthcare received a complaint stating the system opens e-stop while sitting idle causing all movements and scan to stop. The problem has only occurred one time when the scan was out of Ready for Scan or scanning mode.

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 Jul 1, 2015 · Data as of Sep 19, 4:51 PM UTC

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