K131223 · GE Healthcare Finland Oy · MHX · Aug 28, 2013 · Cardiovascular
Device Facts
Record ID
K131223
Device Name
CARESCAPE MONITOR B650
Applicant
GE Healthcare Finland Oy
Product Code
MHX · Cardiovascular
Decision Date
Aug 28, 2013
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 870.1025
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
Pediatric
Indications for Use
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is a multi-parameter patient monitor intended for use in multiple areas and intrahospital transport within a professional healthcare facility. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is intended for use on adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients and on one patient at a time. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is indicated for monitoring of: - hemodynamic (including ECG, ST segment, arrhythmia detection, ECG diagnostic analysis and measurement, invasive pressure, noninvasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry, cardiac output (thermodilution and pulse contour), temperature, mixed venous oxygen saturation, and central venous oxygen saturation), - Respiratory (impedance respiration, airway gases (CO2, O2, N2O and anesthetic agents), spirometry, gas exchange) and - neurophysiological status (including electroencephalography, Entropy, Bispectral Index (BIS), and neuromuscular transmission). The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 also provides alarms, trends, snapshots and events, and calculations and can be connected to displays, printers and recording devices. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 can be a stand-alone monitor or interfaced to other devices. It can also be connected to other monitors for remote viewing and to data management software devices via a network. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is intended for use under the direct supervision of a licensed healthcare practitioner, or by personnel trained in proper use of the equipment in a professional healthcare facility. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is not intended for use during MRI.
Device Story
Multi-parameter patient monitor for professional healthcare settings; monitors hemodynamic, respiratory, and neurophysiological status. Inputs include physiological signals from connected modules (ECG, pressure, SpO2, CO2, EEG, etc.). Device processes inputs via CARESCAPE Software Platform (ESP V2) using EK-Pro V13 algorithm for arrhythmia and ST analysis; provides real-time data, alarms, trends, and snapshots on 15-inch touchscreen. Used by clinicians for patient monitoring; supports standalone operation or network integration for remote viewing and data management. Benefits include continuous patient status oversight and automated detection of physiological events to assist clinical decision-making.
Clinical Evidence
No clinical data required; substantial equivalence supported by bench testing, including risk analysis, module verification, system integration testing, and performance/safety testing against recognized standards (IEC 60601 series, AAMI EC11/13/57, etc.).
Technological Characteristics
Multi-parameter monitor with 15-inch touchscreen; includes battery and parameter measurement modules. Software platform: ESP V2. Connectivity: cabled/wireless network interface for remote viewing and data management. Complies with IEC 60601-1, 60601-1-2, 60601-1-8, and AAMI standards for ECG and blood pressure monitoring. Algorithm: EK-Pro V13 for arrhythmia/ST analysis.
Indications for Use
Indicated for hemodynamic, respiratory, and neurophysiological monitoring of adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients in professional healthcare facilities. Contraindicated for use during MRI.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
The arrhythmia detector and alarm device monitors an electrocardiogram and is designed to produce a visible or audible signal or alarm when atrial or ventricular arrhythmia, such as premature contraction or ventricular fibrillation, occurs.
Special Controls
*Classification.* Class II (special controls). The guidance document entitled “Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Arrhythmia Detector and Alarm” will serve as the special control. See § 870.1 for the availability of this guidance document.
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GE Healthcare Finland Oy Kuortaneenkatu 2, P.O. Box 900 FI-00031 GE Finland T: +358 10 39411 F: +358 9 1463310
## 510(k) Summary
Manager, Quality and Regulatory Affairs
In accordance with 21 CFR 807.92 the following summary of information is provided:
Joel Kent
GE Healthcare Phone: 781-449-8685 Fax: 781-433-1344 E-mail: joel.kent@ge.com
## Owner/Contact/Date (807.92(a)(1):
Date: Owner/Submitter: August 20, 2013 GE Healthcare Finland Oy. Kuortaneenkatu 2 00510 Helsinki FINLAND Phone: +358 10 39411 Fax: +358 9 1463310
Primary Contact Person:
Secondary Contact Person:
Janne Marvola Regulatory Affairs Leader GE Healthcare Finland Oy Kuortaneenkatu 2 00510 Helsinki Finland Phone: + 358 10 394 2172 Fax: +358-92726532 E-mail: janne.marvola@ge.com
# Device_names_(807.92(a)(2)):
Trade Name: Common/Usual Name: Classification Names:
CARESCAPE Monitor B650 multi-parameter patient monitor 21 CFR 870.1025 Arrhythmia detector and alarm (including ST-segment measurement and alarm)
#### MHX
BZK, BZL, BZQ, CAP, CBQ, CBR, CBS, CCK, CCL, DPS, DPZ, DQA, DQK, DRT, DSI, DSJ, DSK, DXG, DXN, FLL, GWJ, GWQ, KOI, KRB, MLD, NHO, NHP, NHQ, OLT, OLW, OMC, ORT
(807.92(a)(3) ::
Primary Product Code:
Secondary Product Code:
K 102239 CARESCAPE Monitor B650
**807.92(a)(2):**
**Trade Name:**
**Common/Usual Name:**
**Classification Names:**
Predicate Device(s)
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Device Description (807.92(a)(4)) ::
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is a multi-parameter patient monitor including both new and existing subsystems. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 includes the monitor itself, the CARESCAPE Software Platform (also called ESP software and for this submission ESP V2 software) and the battery. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 itself has 15 inch touch screen display and a frame for parameter measurement modules. A variety of options are available to the customer including additional displays, various input devices (keyboard, mouse, bar code reader, and corded remote control), and physiological parameter measurement modules, which are existing subsystems. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 communicates to a variety of existing OEM medical devices. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 interfaces to a variety of other existing patient monitoring systems via a cabled or wireless network interface. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 includes features and subsystems that are optional or configurable.
Intended Use: (807.92(a)(5): The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is a multi-parameter patient monitor intended for use in multiple areas and intrahospital transport within a professional healthcare facility. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is intended for use on adult, pediatric, and
neonatal patients and on one patient at a time.
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is indicated for monitoring of:
- . hemodynamic (including ECG, ST segment, arrhythmia detection, ECG diagnostic analysis and measurement, invasive pressure, noninvasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry, cardiac output (thermodilution and pulse contour), temperature, mixed venous oxygen saturation, and central venous oxygen saturation),
- . Respiratory (impedance respiration, airway gases (CO2, O2, N2O and anesthetic agents), spirometry, gas exchange) and
- . neurophysiological status (including electroencephalography, Entropy, Bispectral Index (BIS), and neuromuscular transmission).
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 also provides alarms, trends, snapshots and events, and calculations and can be connected to displays, printers and recording devices.
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 can be a stand-alone monitor or interfaced to other devices. It can also be connected to other monitors for remote viewing and to data management software devices via a network. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is intended for use under the direct supervision of a licensed healthcare practitioner, or by personnel trained in proper use of the equipment in a professional healthcare facility. The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is not intended for use during MRI.
Technology (807.92(a)(6)) :: The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is a new revision of a monitor where the CARESCAPE Software Platform (also called ESP software) is version 2 whereas the existing predicate monitor CARESCAPE Monitor B650 (K102239) has software version 1.
The fundamental technology of the CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is the same as in the predicate device.
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 with ESP V2 software uses an improved arrhythmia and ST analysis algorithm called EK-Pro V13 in the Monitor Software. It is based on the previous algorithm version EK-Pro V12, which has been cleared as part of the predicate device CARESCAPE Monitor B650 with ESP V1 software (K102239).
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The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 device is as safe and effective the predicate devices.
Determination of Substantial Equivalence (807.92(b)(1))::
## Summary of Non-Clinical Tests:
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 and its applications comply with voluntary standards as detailed below. The following quality assurance measures were applied to the development of the system:
- . Risk Analysis
- . Requirements Reviews
- . Design Reviews
- . Testing on unit level (Module verification)
- . Integration testing (System verification)
- . Final acceptance testing (Validation)
- . Performance testing (Verification)
- . Safety testing (Verification)
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 was designed and tested for compliance to the following standards:
- 1. IEC 60601-1:1988, A1:1991, A2:1995, Corr1:1995, Medical Electrical Equipment Part 1: General Requirements for Safety -Second Edition
- 2. IEC 60601-1-1:2000, Medical Electrical Equipment - Part 1-1: General Requirements for Safety - Collateral Standard: Safety Requirements for Medical Electrical Systems - Edition 2.0
- 3. IEC 60601-1-2:2001 + A1:2004, Medical electrical equipment - Part 1-2: General requirements for safety - Collateral standard: Electromagnetic compatibility - Requirements and tests - Edition 2.1
- 4. IEC 60601-1-4:1996 + A1:1999 (AKA ed 1.1:2000), Medical electrical equipment - Part 1: General requirements for safety - 4 -Collateral standard: Programmable electrical medical systems, Edition 1.1
- IEC60601-1-6:2006, Medical electrical equipment Part 1-6: 5. General requirements for basic safety and essential performance collateral Standard: Usability - Edition 2
- IEC 60601-1-8:2006, Medical electrical equipment Part 1-8: 6. General requirements for basic safety and essential performance -Collateral Standard: General requirements, tests, and guidance for alarm systems in medical electrical equipment and medical electrical
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systems, Second Edition
- 7. IEC 60601-2-10:1987 + A1:2001, Medical Electrical Equipment Part 2: Particular Requirements for the Safety of Nerve and Muscle Stimulators - First Edition
- 8. IEC 60601-2-25:1993 + A1:1999, Medical Electrical Equipment Part 2: Particular requirements for the safety of electrocardiographs - First edition
- 9. IEC 60601-2-26:2002, Medical electrical equipment - Particular requirements for the safety of electroencephalographs
- 10. IEC 60601-2-27:2005, Medical electrical equipment Part 2-27: Particular requirements for the safety, including essential performance, of electrocardiographic monitoring equipment
- 11. IEC 60601-2-30:1999, Medical electrical equipment Part 2-30: Particular requirements for the safety, including essential performance, of automatic cycling non-invasive blood pressure monitoring equipment-Second Edition
- 12. IEC 60601-2-34:2000, Medical electrical equipment Part 2-34: Particular requirements for the safety, including essential performance, of invasive blood pressure monitoring equipment-Edition 2
- 13. IEC 60601-2-40:1998, Medical electrical equipment Particular requirements for the safety of electromyographs and evoked response equipment
- 14. IEC 60601-2-49:2001, Medical electrical equipment Part 2-49: Particular requirements for the safety of multifunction patient monitoring equipment-Edition 1
- 15. IEC 60601-2-51:2003, Medical electrical equipment Part 2-51: Particular requirements for safety, including essential performance, of recording and analyzing single channel and multichannel electrocardiographs-Edition 1
- 16. AAMI EC11:1991/(R)2001/(R)2007. Diagnostic Electrocardiographic Devices
- 17. AAMI EC13: 2002/(R)2007, Cardiac monitors, heart rate meters, and alarms,
- 18. AAMI EC-57:1998, A1:2003, Testing and reporting performance results of cardiac rhythm and ST segment measurement algorithms
- 19. AAMI SP10:2002 + A1:2003 + A2:2006, Manual, electronic, or automated sphygmomanometers
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- 20. EN1041:2008, Information supplied by the manufacturer with medical devices
- 21. EN1060-1:1995 +A1:2002, Non-invasive sphygmomanometers- Part I : General requirements
- 22. EN1060-3:1997 +A1:2005, Non-invasive sphygmomanometers- Part 3: Supplementary requirements for electro-mechanical blood pressure measuring systems
Except for the following clause:
- o 7.9 for PDM module: Testing performed in accordance with EN 1060-4
- 23. EN 12470-4:2000, A1:2009, Clinical Thermometers Part 4: Performance of Electrical Thermometers for Continuous Measurement
Except for the following clauses:
- 6.3 b) Temperature measurement error with single use probes o exceeded maximum permissible error.
- 6.4: The response time of the Esophageal stethoscope with o temperature probe exceeds 150s for the probe sizes 18F and 24F.
- 24. ISO 21647:2004 + C1:2005, Medical electrical equipment -Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of respiratory gas monitors
- 25. ISO9919:2005, Medical electrical equipment Particular requirements for the safety and essential performance of pulse oximeter equipment for medical use - Second Edition
- 26. IEC62304:2006, Medical device software Software life cycle processes
- 27. IEC62366:2007, Medical Devices Application of usability engineering to medical devices (General)
| Clinical (807.92(b)(2)): | Summary of Clinical Tests:<br>The subject of this premarket submission, CARESCAPE Monitor B650 did<br>not require clinical studies to support substantial equivalence. |
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| Conclusion (807.92(b)(3)):: | GE Healthcare considers the CARESCAPE Monitor B650 to be as safe, as<br>effective, and performance is substantially equivalent to the predicate device. |
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August 28, 2013
GE Healthcare Finland Oy c/o Mr. Joel Kent Kuortancenkatu 2 Helsinki, FIN-00510 FI
Re: K131223
> Trade/Device Name: Carescape Monitor B650 Regulation Number: 21 CFR 870.1025 Regulation Name: Multiparameter Patient Monitor (Monitor, Physiological, Patient(With Arrhythmia Detection Or Alarms)) Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: MHX, BZK, BZL. BZQ, CAP, CBQ, CBR, CBS, CCK, CCL, DPS, DPZ, DQA, DQK, DRT, DSI. DSJ. DSK. DXG, DXN, FLL, GWJ. GWQ, KOI. KRB, MLD, NHO. NHP, NHQ. OLT, OLW, OMC, ORT Dated: August 2, 2013 Received: August 5, 2013
Dear Mr. Joel Kent:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food. Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration. Issiing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading,
If your device is classified (see above) into either class II (Special Controls) or class III (PMA), it may be subject to additional controls. Existing major regulations affecting your device can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Parts 800 to 898. In addition, FDA may publish further announcements concerning your device in the Federal Register.
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Please be advised that FDA's issuance of a substantial equivalence determination does not mean that FDA has made a determination that your device complies with other requirements of the Act or any Federal statutes and regulations administered by other Federal agencies. You must comply with all the Act's requirements, including, but not limited to: registration and listing (21 CFR Part 807); labeling (21 CFR Part 801); medical device reporting (reporting of medical device-related adverse events) (21 CFR 803); good manufacturing practice requirements as set forth in the quality systems (QS) regulation (21 CFR Part 820); and if applicable, the electronic product radiation control provisions (Sections 531-542 of the Act); 21 CFR 1000-1050.
If you desire specific advice for your device on our labeling regulation (21 CFR Part 801), please contact the Division of Small Manufacturers, International and Consumer Assistance at its tollfree number (800) 638-2041 or (301) 796-7100 or at its Internet address http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ResourcesforYou/Industry/default.htm. Also, please note the regulation entitled, "Misbranding by reference to premarket notification" (21 CFR Part 807.97). For questions regarding the reporting of adverse events under the MDR regulation (21 CFR Part 803), please go to http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ReportaProblem/default.htm for the CDRH's Office of Surveillance and Biometrics/Division of Postmarket Surveillance.
You may obtain other general information on your responsibilities under the Act from the Division of Small Manufacturers, International and Consumer Assistance at its toll-free number (800) 638 2041 or (301) 796-7100 or at its Internet address http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ResourcesforYou/Industry/default.htm.
https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ResourcesforYou/Industry/default.htm
Sincerely yours,
Owen P. Faris -S
for
Bram D. Zuckerman, Ph.D. Director Division of Cardiovascular Devices Office of Device Evaluation Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known):
# Device Name: CARESCAPE Monitor B650
Indications for use:
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is a multi-parameter patient monitor intended for use in multiple areas and intrahospital transport within a professional healthcare facility.
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is intended for use on adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients and on one patient at a time.
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is indicated for monitoring of:
- · hemodynamic (including ECG, ST segment, arthythmia detection, ECG diagnostic analysis and measurement, invasive pressure, non-invasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry. cardiac output (thermodilution and pulse contour), temperature, mixed venous oxygen saturation, and central venous oxygen saturation),
- . Respiratory (impedance respiration, airway gases (CO2, O2, N2O and anesthetic agents), spirometry, gas exchange) and
- . neurophysiological status (including electroencephalography, Entropy, Bispectral Index (BIS), and neuromuscular transmission).
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 also provides alarms, trends, snapshots and events, and calculations and can be connected to displays, printers and recording devices.
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 can be a stand-alone monitor or interfaced to other devices. It can also be connected to other monitors for remote viewing and to data management software devices via a network.
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is intended for use under the direct supervision of a licensed healthcare practitioner, or by personnel trained in proper use of the equipment in a professional healthcare facility.
The CARESCAPE Monitor B650 is not intended for use during MRI.
Prescription Use X Over-The-Counter Use AND/OR (Part 21 CFR 801 Subpart D) (21 CFR 801 Subpart C) (PI.EASE DO NOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE-CONTINUE ON ANOTHER PAGE OF NEEDED)
Concurrence of CDRH, Office of Device Evaluation (ODE)
Digitally signed by
Owen P. Faris -S
Date: 2013.08.28
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