FDA (Devices) recall action 87475
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Potential for the device safety interlock to fail. The safety interlock prevents an empty single-use reload from being erroneously fired a second time. If the safety interlock fails and the empty single-use reload is fired a second time, the stapler may cut tissue but no staples will deploy from the empty reload, potentially resulting in a failed anastomosis, bleeding, tissue trauma, and the potential need to convert to an open procedure.
The agency’s own wording, quoted from the enforcement report.
FDA is recalling specific lots of Covidien Signia stapler reloads because a safety interlock may fail, allowing empty reloads to be fired and causing tissue injury.
FDA is recalling specific lots of Covidien Signia stapler reloads because a safety interlock may fail, allowing empty reloads to be fired.
FDA recalls 11,391 units of Covidien Signia vascular stapler reloads because a safety interlock may fail, allowing empty reloads to fire and cause tissue injury.