GE Healthcare recommends that healthcare providers take certain nuclear imaging systems off line after an Infinia Hawkeye 4 nuclear medicine camera collapses and kills a patient in a Veterans Administration hospital in New York.
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) issued an urgent field safety notice on its nuclear medicine systems after part of an Infinia Hawkeye 4 system collapsed and killed a patient in a New York Veterans Administration hospital.
Last month, a 66-year-old patient was crushed by the Infinia system, a gamma camera, while undergoing a procedure. The Infinia Hawkeye 4 is one of the largest devices of its kind and can weigh more than 5,000 pounds, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal last month reported on the death, which occurred at James J Peters VA Medical Center.
