Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced that the Boston Scientific Japan Co. was voluntarily recalling the tube catheter for 1,405 blood vessel treatment in total from 511 medical institution facilities on December 2.
It is because the point of the catheter blood vessel aedeagus tool that this company sold comes off, and the point might remain in the inside of the body.
The aedeagus tool is medical equipment that secures the route to fix the catheter to the aorta.
To prevent the blood vessel of lungs being blocked, this medical equipment is inserted in patient's blood vessel.
Two malpractices with the catheter blood vessel aedeagus tool happened domestically according to Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
In one malpractice, the medical equipment reached the pulmonary artery periphery by the stream of blood.
The patient received serious damage.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government that classified a level dangerous the voluntarily recalled product into three stages specified it for most dangerous Class 1.