ExacTrac Robotics, sold alone as Robotic Tilt Module catalog 49720 and in a bundle as catalog 49700, for installation on the Varian Exact Couch, a component of the Novalis Shaped Beam Surgery System; a table tilt device - powered radiation therapy patient support assembly; BrainLab AG, Ammerthalstrasse 8, 85551 Heimstetten, Germany
Hazard
During ExacTrac Robotics installation on the Varian Exact Couch, the couch height position indication is re-calibrated to read out the correct positions. This re-calibration could cause the eventual failure of the vertical lift mechanism of the couch, which might result in patient injury or death.
What You Should Do
BrainLab issued a Product Notification Letter to the hospitals on 6/2/06 to advise the users not to lower the couch below 50 cm, and sent a second letter to the users on 6/7/06, informing them that BrainLab would remove the ExacTrac Robotics from the Exact Couch and re-calibrate the couch to restore the software limit switch. The Robotics will be re-installed once a permanent solution is available.
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Products
- Brand
- Brainlab AG Ammerthalstrasse 8 Kirchheim B. Muenchen Germany
- UPC
- bundle #06-69448-49700, tilt module #3520-05-011-49720; bundle #06-69445-49700, tilt module #3520-05-006-49720; bundle #06-78573-49700, tilt module #3520-05-017-49720; bundle #06-69573-49700, tilt module #3520-05-002-49720; bundle #06-78149-49700, tilt module #3520-05-015-49720; bundle #06-66427-49700, tilt module #3520-05-013-49720; bundle #06-62416-49700, tilt module #3520-05-008-49720; tilt module #3520-05-018-49720; bundle #06-77290-49700, tilt module #3520-05-019-49720; bundle #06-77669-49700, tilt module #3520-05-020-49720; bundle #06-78440-49700, tilt module #3520-05-014-49720; bundle #06-74601-49700, tilt module #3520-05-010-49720; bundle #06-64377-49700, tilt module #7520-05-005-49720;
Units Affected
19 devices