Brainlab AG: Medical Device Recalls in 2014

According to to data from the FDA, there were 7 medical device recalls made by Brainlab AG in 2014. See the details of the recalls below.

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• ExacTrac 6.0 is a patient positioning and monitoring system. Model/catalogue numbers: 20833B EXACTRAC 6.0 IR POSITIONING SOFTWARE 49936 ET SOFTWARE UPDATE 6.0.X TO 6.0.3 49926B ET UPGRADE SOFTWARE 3.X TO 6.0 (IR+XR) 49934A EXACTRAC UPGRADE 5.5 TO 6.0 BASIC 49927B ET UPGRADE SOFTWARE 4.X TO 6.0 (IR+XR) 49928B ET UPGRADE SOFTWARE 5.X TO 6.0 (IR+XR) 49933B ET UPGRADE TRUEBEAM 5.5 TO 6.0 LIMITED 49973B ET DATA PREP / REVIEW SYSTEM 49998B ET 6.0 DATA PREP/REVIEW SYSTEM UPG. KIT 49996B ET UPGRADE SOFTWARE X.X TO 6.0 SW ONLY 49997B ET UPGRADE SOFTWARE 5.5 TO 6.0 LIMITED
• ExacTrac 5.5, an Image Processing System used for patient positioning for radiation therapy or radiosurgery.
• ExacTrac is intended to be used to place patients at an accurately defined point within the treatment beam of a medical accelerator for stereotactic radiosurgery or radiotherapy procedures, in order to treat lesions, tumors and conditions anywhere in the body when radiation treatment is indicated. ExacTrac may also be used to monitor the patient position during the treatment.
• Navigation Spine & Trauma 3D Version 2.0 and 2.1 Is intended as an intraoperative image-guided localization system to enable minimally invasive surgery. It links a freehand probe, tracked by a passive marker sensor system to virtual computer image space on a patient's preoperative or Intraoperative 2D or 3D image data. The system is indicated for any medical condition in which the use of stereotactic surgery may be appropriate and where a reference to a rigid anatomical structure, such as the skull, the pelvis, a long bone or vertebra can be identified relative to the acquired image (CT, MR, 2D fluoroscopic image or 3D fluoroscopic image reconstruction) and/or an image data based model of the anatomy.
• Brainlab, Spine & Trauma 3D 2.0, Navigation Software. An intraoperative image-guided localization system to enable minimally invasive surgery. Catalog Number: 22264
• BrainLAB's VectorVision spine is intended for use as an intraoperative image-guided localization system for minimally invasive surgery. It links a freehand probe, tracked by a passive marker sensor system to virtual computer image space on a patient's preoperative image data that is processed by a VectorVision workstation. The system is indicated for any medical condition in which the use of stereoscopic surgery may be appropriate and where a reference to a rigid anatomical structure, such as the skull, the pelvis, a long bone or vertebra can be identified relative to a CT, x-ray, or MR-based model of the anatomy.
• Patient Data Manager 2.0 (Content manager 2.0, Patient Browser 4.0, DICOM Viewer 2.0) Brainlab Digital Lightbox. A system for the display of medical images. Model numbers 25100-05 and 25100-06. The software can transfer images to and from picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), file servers, or removable storage media.