Philips MRI Scanners Subject to Class 1 Recall for Explosion Risk

As if lawsuits and plummeting stock prices from its faulty CPAP machines didn’t provide enough bad headlines, Philips now wants customers to pull the plug on one of its magnetic resonance imaging machines due to the potential for an explosion.  

Labeled by the FDA as a Class 1 recall, the most serious level as use of the device could cause serious injury or death, the decision by Philips to shut down its Panorama 1.0T HFO unit is due to an explosion risk during a quench procedure involving the venting of helium into the outside air. 

Since the 1.0T HFO was introduced in the U.S. in 2001, there has been one reported explosion with the unit and no reported deaths or injuries. 

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