MAUDE data represents reports of adverse events involving medical devices. This maude entry was filed from a user facility report with the FDA on 2016-07-06 for SMART MONITOR 2 4003 manufactured by Circadiance Llc..
[48921034]
The device was returned to circadiance for investigation. The complaint issue alleged by the customer was confirmed during the evaluation of the device. An alarm failure associated with a faulty audible alarm was recorded. The audible alarm was sent to be evaluated by the manufacturer and the failure mode was confirmed. The audible alarm was found not to produce any sound due to the transducer hook-up wire soldering to the brass connection of the transducer being broken. The root cause of the identified issue has been determined to be poor soldering workmanship and previously addressed by the alarm manufacturer's corrective action process in may of 2015. Actions initiated by the manufacturer consisted of a specified procedure for both the soldering of wires to the transducers and quality inspection of transducer solder connections for audible alarms specifically manufactured for use in the smart monitor 2 device. The smartmonitor 2 device has provisions to allow the user to detect failure of the audible alarm. Specifically, the users are instructed that the audible alarm will annunciate every time that the monitor is turned on allowing the user to verify alarm functionality prior to placing the device into service. Additionally, users are instructed to perform a full device checkout by following the published smartmonitor 2 checkout procedure between uses on different patients or at least annually if the monitor has not been in use. The steps of the checkout procedure fully verify all of the alarm functions of the smartmonitor 2. These instructions and features minimize the risk that an audible alarm failure can result in patient injury. The instructions and features notified the caregiver and subsequently returned the device for servicing. The user of this equipment is responsible for reading, understanding, and following the warning and caution statements throughout the manual. No other additional alarm failures associated with the identified root cause have been reported to circadiance since acquiring the smart monitor device in july of 2015. A review of complaint data provided by philip's healthcare, the previous manufacturer of the smart monitor 2, showed three previous occurrences of the identified issue had occurred prior to circadiance acquiring the product line. These occurrences prompted a corrective action by the audible alarm manufacturer in may of 2015. None of the reported failures resulted in patient harm and all of the failures were identified either during the start-up diagnostic or during the smart monitor checkout procedure prior to the device being fully placed into patient use. Based on these findings and a complete review of this complaint file, it is concluded that use of the device does not present an increased risk to the end user or patient and that no corrective action or additional investigation activity is necessary at this time. Complaint code trending will continue to be reviewed on a periodic basis.
Patient Sequence No: 1, Text Type: N, H10
[48921035]
Circadiance, llc received customer complaint allegation on (b)(6) 2016 from a durable medical equipment (dme) provider detailing an audible alarm failure associated with a smartmonitor 2 device. The customer reported that failure occurred when hooking up the device to the patient and the device failed to produce an audible alarm during the start-up self-test diagnostic. No resulting effect on a patient or potential user has been reported. Visual alarm indicators were reportedly functioning both at patient's home and on the simulator back in the office during testing.
Patient Sequence No: 1, Text Type: D, B5
| Report Number | 3006182632-2016-00002 |
| MDR Report Key | 5773073 |
| Report Source | USER FACILITY |
| Date Received | 2016-07-06 |
| Date of Report | 2016-06-06 |
| Date Mfgr Received | 2016-06-06 |
| Device Manufacturer Date | 2014-08-08 |
| Date Added to Maude | 2016-07-06 |
| Event Key | 0 |
| Report Source Code | Manufacturer report |
| Manufacturer Link | Y |
| Number of Patients in Event | 0 |
| Adverse Event Flag | 3 |
| Product Problem Flag | 3 |
| Reprocessed and Reused Flag | 3 |
| Reporter Occupation | MEDICAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY TECHNICIAN/REPRESENTATIVE |
| Health Professional | 3 |
| Initial Report to FDA | 3 |
| Report to FDA | 3 |
| Event Location | 3 |
| Manufacturer Contact | MR. JAMES GIANOUTSOS |
| Manufacturer Street | 1300 RODI ROAD |
| Manufacturer City | TURTLE CREEK PA 15145 |
| Manufacturer Country | US |
| Manufacturer Postal | 15145 |
| Manufacturer Phone | 7243879182 |
| Single Use | 3 |
| Previous Use Code | 3 |
| Event Type | 3 |
| Type of Report | 3 |
| Brand Name | SMART MONITOR 2 |
| Generic Name | APNEA MONITOR |
| Product Code | FLS |
| Date Received | 2016-07-06 |
| Returned To Mfg | 2016-06-07 |
| Model Number | 4003 |
| Operator | HEALTH PROFESSIONAL |
| Device Availability | R |
| Device Eval'ed by Mfgr | Y |
| Device Sequence No | 1 |
| Device Event Key | 0 |
| Manufacturer | CIRCADIANCE LLC. |
| Manufacturer Address | 1300 RODI ROAD TURTLE CREEK PA 15145 US 15145 |
| Patient Number | Treatment | Outcome | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 2016-07-06 |