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Life2000 recallZ-0887-2025 · Baxter Healthcare Corporation · initiated Dec 20, 2024

Open, Classified

Is my device affected?

  1. Compare the model, catalog and lot or serial numbers on your device or its packaging with the code information below. A recall usually covers only specific models or lots.
  2. If yours is listed, follow the instructions from Baxter Healthcare Corporation or your healthcare provider. The company's action is summarized under what the company is doing.
  3. Do not stop using a prescribed or implanted device on your own — talk to your healthcare provider first.

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Why it was recalled

There is an issue with the ventilator battery charger that could lead to an audible and visual alarm. If the alarm is engaged, the ventilator becomes inoperable.

FDA root cause category: Process control

What the company is doing

Baxter issued an URGENT MEDICAL DEVICE CORRECTION notice to its consignees on 12/20/2024 via USPS first class mail. The notice explained the problem with the device, hazard involved, and requested the following actions be taken: 1. Always have an alternate means of ventilation or oxygen therapy available. 2. Patients may continue using the Life2000 ventilator if it is functioning correctly. If the ventilator becomes inoperable, place the patient on an alternate means of ventilation, if necessary, and contact Baxter Advanced Respiratory, Clinical Support team at 800-397-9071. 3. In the interim if patients experience this failure and have an additional charger available, connect it to the ventilator and verify that the ventilator is charging. 4. If you received this communication directly from Baxter, please acknowledge receipt of this notification by responding on our customer portal at https://BaxterFieldActionCustomerPortal.onprocess.com, even if you do not have any remaining inventory. Log in to the portal using the account number listed in the enclosed reply form instruction sheet. 6. If you distributed this product to other facilities or departments within your institution, please forward a copy of this communication to the Director of Respiratory Therapy, Patient Safety, and any other departments within your institution who use the affected product. 7. If you are a dealer, wholesaler, distributor/reseller, or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that distributed any affected product to other facilities, please notify your customers of this Urgent Medical Device Correction in accordance with your customary procedures and check the associated box on the customer portal. Durable Medical Equipment providers are required to notify patients of this Urgent Medical Device Correction by forwarding the attached home patient letter. For general questions regarding this Urgent Medical Device Correction, please contact the Baxter Advanced Respiratory team at 800

Recall details

Recall number
Z-0887-2025
Status
Open, Classified
Initiated by the company
Dec 20, 2024
Posted by the FDA
Jan 16, 2025
Recalling firm
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Quantity
1 unit
Product code
CBK
FDA submissions
K170037
Distribution
US, Nationwide Distribution

Product description

Breathe Technologies, Inc., Life2000 Ventilation System, REF BT-20-0002AP

Code information (models, lots, serial numbers)

UDI/DI 00887761978089 or 00815410020537, Serial Numbers: 122010001081

Devices named in this recall

1 device in the FDA device registry whose identifier appears in the recall's code information.

Product lines

Other products in the same recall event

The FDA groups related products into one recall event (event 95842).

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