Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.: ACUSON SC2000 Ultrasound System, Model 10433816, component 10040596 - UILK2. 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-1056-2015

Recalling firm

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

Product

ACUSON SC2000 Ultrasound System, Model 10433816, component 10040596 - UILK2. 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.

Status

Terminated

Initiated

2015-01-12

Posted

2015-02-05

Terminated

2015-11-12

Reason

The bolt holding the control panel of the ACUSON SC2000 in a fixed position may fail and the Control panel cannot be locked into position.

Root cause

Component design/selection

Action

Siemens Medical sent an Customer Safety Advisory Notification to all affected customers on January 12, 2015 , via Certified mail, return receipt requested.The letter identified the product the problem and the action needed to be taken by the customer. At this time there is not mitigation to avoid risk associated with this issue. Local Customer Service Engineers will be contacting each site to replace the console. Until the necessary repairs have been completed, please share the information with all uses of the device. If you have any questions, please contact your local service support person for information regarding timelines and status. Until the necessary repairs have been completed on your system, please share this information with all personnel within your organization who need to be aware of this issue. As always, patient safety issues are a very high priority. To date, no patient injury has been reported. This problem was discovered as part of our ongoing quality process. We sincerely regret any inconvenience this condition may cause in your daily operations. For further questions please call (650) 694-5398.

Quantity

230

Distribution

Worldwide Distribution - USA and the countries of Australia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, Ecuador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, P.R. China, Philippines, Portugal, Republic Korea, Russian Fed., Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, U.A.E. and United Kingdom.

Lot, serial or model codes

Model number 10433816. serial numbers 401100 to 401400.

510(k) numbers

["K123622"]

PMA numbers

not on file

Product code

IYN

Firm FEI

2936884

Firm city

Mountain View

Firm state

CA

Firm country

not on file

Cite as

FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA) (U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)), device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip, sha256 b87518bfe2e8, published 2026-09-28

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