Medical device manufacturer, Philips Healthcare issued a medical device safety alert to remind Philips Gemini, Precedence and Brilliance users of the importance of careful reviewing and monitoring protocol parameters, especially when using the drop-down feature for mAs/slice.

Philips also recommended the affected users to:

• review and carefully monitor each protocol selected before scanning the patient, the dose indices, specifically mAs/slice, displayed on the control panel;
• make sure that the values displayed reasonably correspond to the doses normally associated with the protocol;
• always review and verify the mAs/slice value before initiating any scan to prevent unintended radiation.

Based on the information provided by the local supplier, the affected products have been distributed in Hong Kong.

If you are in possession of the affected products, please contact your supplier for necessary actions.

Posted on 11 July 2012