ClearanceBrief
Recall Z-2052-2021 ยท LNH System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

GE Healthcare, LLC

SIGNA Premier - Product Usage: is a whole body magnetic resonance scanner designed to support high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio, and short scan times.

DateJul 12, 2021 (initiated Jun 4, 2021)
StatusOpen, Classified
ReasonGE Healthcare has recently become aware of an issue on the affected products listed below where the "Patient Orientation" button may inadvertently be clicked when intending to click on the "Save RX" button. This changes the prescribed patient orientation on the system prior to running the initial 3-Plane Localizer Scan (See Figure 1 for reference to buttons.) Selecting and saving a patient orientation that does not match the patient's actual position may result in incorrectly annotated and/or flipped images.
Root causeSoftware design
ActionDeployment of the original customer letter to consignees in the U.S. began on June 4, 2021. Dissemination of the updated customer letter to consignees in the U.S. began on June 11, 2021. The letters discuss an issue on the affected products listed below where the Patient Orientation button may inadvertently be clicked when intending to click on the Save RX button. Users are directed to review and confirm that the actual patient orientation matches the prescribed patient orientation before initiating the scan. A correction is planned.
Quantity100 devices
DistributionWorldwide distributions.
FDA recordOpen on fda.gov

510(k) clearances named in this recall

K171128SIGNA Premier
Ge Medical Systems, LLC, Jul 14, 2017
K183231SIGNA Premier
Ge Medical Systems, LLC, Jan 18, 2019
K193282SIGNA Premier
Ge Healthcare (Ge Medical Systems, LLC), Apr 10, 2020