Ohmeda Medical: Giraffe Exam Light The Exam Light illuminates body surfaces and facilitates patient observation during a medical examination. It increases ambient light to facilitate performance of procedures on the mattress field. It is designed to mount on the accessory railings of the Giraffe OmniBed, incubators and warmers except for Panda and Giraffe Warmers. It is not intended for use to support surgical field lighting.

Recall number

Z-1501-2017

Recalling firm

Ohmeda Medical

Product

Giraffe Exam Light The Exam Light illuminates body surfaces and facilitates patient observation during a medical examination. It increases ambient light to facilitate performance of procedures on the mattress field. It is designed to mount on the accessory railings of the Giraffe OmniBed, incubators and warmers except for Panda and Giraffe Warmers. It is not intended for use to support surgical field lighting.

Status

Terminated

Initiated

2016-11-18

Posted

not on file

Terminated

2018-07-13

Reason

Certain power cords could overheat. The affected power cords were manufactured by Electric-Cord and are referred to as Taller Bridge power cords. The overheating of the power cord could result in fire, charring, smoke, or sparking where the power cord connects to the wall outlet which could cause thermal injury.

Root cause

Under Investigation by firm

Action

According to the firm, this issue will be resolved by sending an Urgent Medical Device Correction customer letter to customers with affected Power Cords. This letter will inform the customer of the issue and provide safety instructions for immediate mitigation of the issue. The long-term solution is to re-place all affected Power Cords at no cost to the customer. According to the firm, the plan for public notification is to contact all customers with affected Power Cords by means of an Urgent Medical Device Correction letter. In the US this will be sent by a traceable means (either US Postal Service with receipt acknowledgement (registered mail) or equivalent courier service such as FEDEX). This letter will be sent to the following titles within the affected accounts; Nurse Managers, Labor & Delivery/NICU, Bio-Medical Engineering Department Managers and Risk Management Directors We will track all service requests for the field action to completion. These service requests will record the replacement of the affected Power Cords. Exceptions to completion of the service request will be recorded as well. Records of field action completion will be retained per our processes and procedures.

Quantity

5,993 (5,080 US; 913 OUS)

Distribution

Worldwide Distribution - US (nationwide and Puerto Rico) Bahamas and Internationally to UK, Trinidad & Tobago, Taiwan, Spain, Panama, Netherlands Antilles, Mexico, Lebanon, Japan, Ireland, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Canada, Brazil, and Venezuela,

Lot, serial or model codes

See Attached Spreadsheat

510(k) numbers

not on file

PMA numbers

not on file

Product code

KZF

Firm FEI

1121732

Firm city

Laurel

Firm state

MD

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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