GE Healthcare, LLC: GE Discovery NM/CT 670 The GE Discovery NM/CT 670 system is a medical tool intended for use by appropriately trained healthcare professionals to aid in detecting, localizing, diagnosing of diseases and organ function for the evaluation of diseases, trauma, abnormalities, and disorders such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders and cancer. The system output can also be used by the physician for staging and restaging of tumors, planning, guiding, and monitoring therapy. The GE Discovery NM/CT 670 system, combining Nuclear Medicine (NM) and Computed Tomography (CT) systems, is intended to produce: NM System: General Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures for detection of radioisotope tracer uptake in the patient body, using a variety of scanning modes supported by various acquisition types and imaging features designed to enhance image quality.

Recall number

Z-1110-2012

Recalling firm

GE Healthcare, LLC

Product

GE Discovery NM/CT 670 The GE Discovery NM/CT 670 system is a medical tool intended for use by appropriately trained healthcare professionals to aid in detecting, localizing, diagnosing of diseases and organ function for the evaluation of diseases, trauma, abnormalities, and disorders such as, but not limited to, cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders and cancer. The system output can also be used by the physician for staging and restaging of tumors, planning, guiding, and monitoring therapy. The GE Discovery NM/CT 670 system, combining Nuclear Medicine (NM) and Computed Tomography (CT) systems, is intended to produce: NM System: General Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures for detection of radioisotope tracer uptake in the patient body, using a variety of scanning modes supported by various acquisition types and imaging features designed to enhance image quality.

Status

Terminated

Initiated

2012-01-11

Posted

2012-02-27

Terminated

2012-12-06

Reason

GE Healthcare has recently become aware of a potential safety issue associated with the collimator cart and lead cover of your Discovery NM/CT 670 and/or Discovery NM 630 system that may impact operator safety. 1. The cart locking pin release and cart disengagement could result in the collimator falling down and could lead to operator or service personnel injury. 2. Another issue is that the

Root cause

Nonconforming Material/Component

Action

The firm, GE Healthcare, sent an "Urgent Medical Device Correction" letter dated January 13, 2012 to its Consignees/Customers. The letter described the Safety Issue, Safety Instructions, Affected Product Details, Product Correction and Contact Information. The customers were instructed to continue to use product, ensure that the collimator exchange monitor the collimator cart are properly locked in place; pay attention to any unexpected cart motion during the exchange procedure; cease the process immediately if the cart has moved from the docking spot, dock cart in place again, and complete the exchange; and if a 3rd party service engineer is servicing rather than the firm, GE, advise according to the instructions in letter. A GE Healthcare Service representative will perform the required hardware update on each affected system. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this notification, contact your local GE Healthcare Service Representative. You may also contact GE Healthcare Call Center: United States or Canada: 800-437-1171 and Other countries: 262-896-2890.

Quantity

79

Distribution

Worldwide distribution: USA (nationwide) including states of: CA, FL, GA, IL, NJ, NY, NC, TX, and WI; and countries of: AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, CANADA, CHINA, DENMARK, FRANCE, GERMANY, INDIA, ISRAEL, ITALY, KOREA, JAPAN, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, POLAND, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SPAIN, SWITZERLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.

Lot, serial or model codes

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510(k) numbers

["K093514"]

PMA numbers

not on file

Product code

KPS

Firm FEI

2126677

Firm city

Waukesha

Firm state

WI

Firm country

not on file

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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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