Philips North America is recalling 26 EarlyVue VS30 Vital Signs Monitors because a software issue prevents the device from sounding an alarm when a patient's respiration rate falls outside of safe high or low limits. This failure occurs specifically when the monitor is using two specific measurement technologies simultaneously: Oridion Microstream etCO2 and Masimo Rainbow RRa. The affected units were distributed worldwide, including in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Brazil.
If the monitor fails to alarm when a patient's breathing rate reaches dangerous levels, healthcare providers may not be alerted to life-threatening respiratory distress or failure. This could result in a delay in critical medical intervention, potentially leading to serious injury or death.
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