{"id":1290,"date":"2026-06-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/ge-healthcare-corrects-carestation-anesthesia-systems-at-risk-of-ineffective-ventilation-in-volume-control-mode\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:07:00","slug":"ge-healthcare-corrects-carestation-anesthesia-systems-at-risk-of-ineffective-ventilation-in-volume-control-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/ge-healthcare-corrects-carestation-anesthesia-systems-at-risk-of-ineffective-ventilation-in-volume-control-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"GE HealthCare Corrects Carestation Anesthesia Systems at Risk of Ineffective Ventilation in Volume Control Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA has published a notice for a GE HealthCare correction affecting Carestation 620, 650, 650c, 750 and 750c anesthesia systems. The concern is that the machines may not ventilate effectively when operating in Volume Control Ventilation (VCV) mode. The FDA describes it as the most serious type of recall.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says ineffective ventilation could cause hypoxia and death, and that the problem should be visible to the user through alarms such as &#8220;Unable to Drive Bellows&#8221; and low apnea, EtCO2 and volume alarms. GE HealthCare reported no serious injuries or deaths linked to the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> the alarms are the safety net, but routine verification of delivered tidal volume in each ventilation mode is what catches a drifting machine before a patient is connected.<\/p>\n<p><em>Summary written by PEC Healthcare from the original report. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/medical-device-recalls-and-early-alerts\/anesthesia-delivery-systems-recall-ge-healthcare-issues-correction-certain-carestations-due-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Food and Drug Administration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain Carestation 620, 650 and 750 series machines may not ventilate effectively in Volume Control Ventilation mode, which could lead to hypoxia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pechealthcare.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}