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Breas Medical AB: Breas Vivo 50 Home Care Ventilator Product Usage: Respiratory Care

Recall number
Z-2094-2015
Recalling firm
Breas Medical AB
Product
Breas Vivo 50 Home Care Ventilator Product Usage: Respiratory Care
Status
Terminated
Initiated
2014-11-07
Posted
2015-07-16
Terminated
2016-04-07
Reason
Unintended treatment termination could result from a keypad malfunction in some situations. The device erroneously interprets this as a Stop Treatment Instruction. An alarm will not sound, or be registered. Accessories and monitoring equipment connected to the Vivo 50 will stop functioning as the device enters stand-by mode.
Root cause
Device Design
Action
Breas Medical sent Urgent Release: Field Safety Notice letters dated November 7, 2014 and Field Safety Notice dated November 21, 2014 to their customers. The letters identified the affected product, problem and the actions to be taken.
Quantity
846 US
Distribution
Worldwide - United States Nationwide Distribution and the countries: Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UAE and United Kingdom.
Lot, serial or model codes
All Vivo 50 Ventilators (215000, 215016) with firmware version 2.04
510(k) numbers
["K123144"]
PMA numbers
not on file
Product code
NOU
Firm FEI
3003244771
Firm city
Molnlycke
Firm state
not on file
Firm country
Sweden

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device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
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b87518bfe2e8
Size
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Published
2026-09-28
Read
2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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