FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Cardiac Assist, Inc: TandemHeart pump is assembled into kits: ProtekDuo Kit - DL29, Product: 5720-2916 - Product Usage: provides temporary extracorporeal circulatory system support with the unique ability to locally deliver an anticoagulant through the infusion system.
- Recall number
- Z-1951-2020
- Recalling firm
- Cardiac Assist, Inc
- Product
- TandemHeart pump is assembled into kits: ProtekDuo Kit - DL29, Product: 5720-2916 - Product Usage: provides temporary extracorporeal circulatory system support with the unique ability to locally deliver an anticoagulant through the infusion system.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2020-03-06
- Posted
- not on file
- Terminated
- 2020-11-20
- Reason
- Failure to prime due to an assembly error
- Root cause
- Under Investigation by firm
- Action
- LivaNova dba Tandem Life notified consignees via 1st class mail (certified return receipt) on March 06th, 2020, states reason for recall, health risk, and action to take: Check your inventory for the presence of potentially affected TandemHeart pump contained within your ordered kit as per Table 1 provided in Attachment 1; - Ensure any affected kit containing the potentially affected TandemHeart pump still in inventory gets quarantined before they can be returned. 2. Please fill and return Response Form by email to LivaNova.FSCA@livanova.comto confirm appropriate corrective actions have been executed. Please return the Response Form even if each potentially affected device listed in Attachment 1 has already been used. 3. Potentially affected product still in your inventory will be replaced once the Response Form has been returned to LivaNova. Leverage your TandemLife representativeto aid in the collection of the affected quarantined kit containing the potentially affected TandemHeart pump. Questions regarding this Medical Device Removal, please contact your TandemLife representative, or TandemLife Customer Quality at LivaNova.FSCA@livanova.com.
- Quantity
- 38
- Distribution
- US Nationwide distributions.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Serial Numbers: 00142569 00142570 00142571 00142572 00142573 00142574 00142575 00142576 00142592 00142593 00142594 00142595 00142597 00142598 00142600 00142601 00142664 00142665 00142666 00142668 00142669 00142670 00142671 00142672 00142673 00142674 00142692 00142693 00142694 00142696 00142697 00142698 00142699 00142926 00142930 00142933 00142936 00142934
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K110493"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- KFM
- Firm FEI
- 3002228812
- Firm city
- Pittsburgh
- Firm state
- PA
- Firm country
- not on file
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- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
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- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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