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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.: Dimension Vista 500 Intelligent Lab System and Dimension Vista 1500 Intelligent Lab System, analyzer, chemistry (photometric, discrete), for clinical use Product Usage: The Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Dimension Vista System is an in vitro diagnostic device intended to duplicate manual analytical procedures such as pipetting, mixing, heating, and measuring spectral intensities to determine a variety of analytes in human body fluids. Dimension Vista chemical and immunochemical applications use photometric, turbidimetric, chemiluminescence, nephelometric and integrated ion-selective multisensor technology for clinical use.

Recall number
Z-1703-2017
Recalling firm
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.
Product
Dimension Vista 500 Intelligent Lab System and Dimension Vista 1500 Intelligent Lab System, analyzer, chemistry (photometric, discrete), for clinical use Product Usage: The Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Dimension Vista System is an in vitro diagnostic device intended to duplicate manual analytical procedures such as pipetting, mixing, heating, and measuring spectral intensities to determine a variety of analytes in human body fluids. Dimension Vista chemical and immunochemical applications use photometric, turbidimetric, chemiluminescence, nephelometric and integrated ion-selective multisensor technology for clinical use.
Status
Terminated
Initiated
2017-03-03
Posted
2017-03-19
Terminated
2018-07-03
Reason
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has confirmed that in isolated cases when ECREA is processed immediately after the weekly automated Acid Clean routine during Probe Test, there is the remote potential for an elevation of greater than 15 percent in the ECREA result.
Root cause
Under Investigation by firm
Action
Siemens mailed an Urgent Medical Device Correction Notice letter dated March 3, 2017 to affected customers. The letter identified the affected product, problem and actions to be taken. For questions contact Siemens Customer Care Center - Technical Solutions at (800-441-9250) or your local Siemens Technical Support Representative.
Quantity
2733 systems
Distribution
Worldwide Distribution - United States Nationwide and Puerto Rico, Canada, Qatar, Republic Korea, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Portugal.
Lot, serial or model codes
Device Listing D011374 Serial Number: All serial numbers
510(k) numbers
["K051087"]
PMA numbers
not on file
Product code
JJE
Firm FEI
2517506
Firm city
Newark
Firm state
DE
Firm country
not on file

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Published
2026-09-28
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