HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) System, individual pamphlets: HVAD¿ System Emergency Responder…
Medical device recall Z-1107-2022. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on May 25, 2022.
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on May 25, 2022. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class II FDA’s class
- Ongoing its status, in FDA’s file
- Not named no state, in where it went
- 645 units how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class II, the middle of FDA’s three classes.
“Products that might cause a temporary health problem, or pose only a slight threat of a serious nature. Example: a drug that is under-strength but that is not used to treat life-threatening situations.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class II is a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(2), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
Finnish and Turkish translation errors in HVAD controller and monitor displays as will as Instructions for Use, Patient Manual, and Emergency Responder Guide for the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) system.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
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645 units, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
No GTIN HVAD System Emergency Responder Guide (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020776 HVAD System Emergency Responder Guide (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020776 HVAD System Emergency Responder Guide (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020776 HVAD System…
Every code shown here, 1,535 characters
No GTIN HVAD System Emergency Responder Guide (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020776 HVAD System Emergency Responder Guide (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020776 HVAD System Emergency Responder Guide (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020776 HVAD System Emergency Responder Guide (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R025893 HVAD System Instructions For Use (FI), Lot Number: R020771 HVAD System Instructions For Use (FI), Lot Number: R020771 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020769 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020769 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020769 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020769 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020769 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R020769 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R021391 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R021391 HVAD System Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R022265 HVAD System Instructions For Use - FI, Lot Number: R025606 HVAD System Instructions For Use (FI), Lot Number: R028504 HVAD System OUS Patient Manual (FI-Finnish), Lot Number: R028100 HVAD System Emergency Responder Guide (TR-Turkish), Lot Number: R025877 HVAD System Patient Manual (TR-Turkish), Lot Number: R021248 HVAD System Patient Manual (TR-Turkish), Lot Number: R021248 HVAD System Patient Manual (TR-Turkish), Lot Number: R027179 HVAD System Patient Manual (TR-Turkish), Lot Number: R027179 HVAD System OUS Instructions For Use (TR-Turkish), Lot Number: R025760R01
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
Finland and Turkey
These words name no state.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Is it still going on?
Ongoing, in FDA’s file.
“A recall which is currently in progress.”
openFDA, on “On-Going”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Mar 30, 2022.
- FDA classified it on May 17, 2022.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on May 25, 2022.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Heartware, Inc., of Miami Lakes, FL.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Device recall enforcement reports.
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