“PMDA Alert for Proper Use of Medical Devices” aims to provide information to healthcare professionals in an easy-to-understand manner. The information presented here includes, among medical device malfunction/infection cases reported, such cases where the reporting frequencies of similar cases have not decreased in spite of the fact that precautions for those medical devices have been already issued in package inserts or in other ways.
| No. | Posted on | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | March 2022 | Bleeding Caused by the Use of IMPELLA Circulatory Assistance Pump Catheter |
| 2 | July 2018 | Adverse Events involving the Use of Bioprostheses for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation |
| 1 | July 2017 | Adverse Events Associated with the Use of Aortic Stent-Grafts |
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