Company:Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
Date of Enforcement Report 3/21/2018
Class lI:

PRODUCT

ACUSON SC2000 Ultrasound System Product Usage: The SC2000 ultrasound imaging system is intended for the following applications: Cardiac, Neo-natal and Fetal Cardiac, Pediatric, Transespohageal, Adult Cephalic, Peripheral Vessel, Abdominal, Abdominal Intraoperative, Intraoperative Neurological, Musculo-skeletal Conventional, and Musculo-skeletal Superficial applications. The system also provides the ability to measure anatomical structures and calculation packages that provide information to the clinician that may be used adjunctively with other medical data obtained by a physician for clinical diagnosis purposes.
Recall Number Z-0978-2018

REASON
The application may underestimate the EROA (Effective Regurgitant Orifice Area) in comparison to the same patient results obtained with the 4Z1c volume transthoracic echocardiography transducer..

RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Mountain View, CA on 1/26/2018. Voluntary: Firm Initiated recall is ongoing.

VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
564 systems

DISTRIBUTION
Nationwide and Internationally

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