Database updated: 27 October 2026
Safety Information
Medsafe Online Recall Database
Detail of Recall
| Type of Product: | Device |
| Medsafe Reference: | 18584 |
| Brand Name: | Varian VariSource TM iX Console software with magnetic hard disk drive only |
| Model: | |
| Affected: | |
| Software version: | 1.2, Build 2.4336 |
| Recalling Organisation: | Varian Medical Systems Australasia Pty Ltd (NZ) Millenium Centre, Level 3, Building C, 600 Great South Road Ellerslie Auckland 1051 |
| Contact Information: | 0800 486 732 |
| Manufacturer: | Varian Medical Systems Haan GmbH |
| Issue: | Varisource iX Console software version 1.2, Build 2.4336 will occasionally freeze during the treatment initiation sequence. An application freeze is a condition when, after pressing the Deliver Treatment button the the Treatment Delivery Strip, the Treatment Delivery Strip becomes blank and the Afterloader remains in idle mode and does not switch to treatment delivery mode. No other buttons on the control software user interface will respond. As a consequence of a system freeze there is the potential for the Partial Fraction generated by the system to be incorrect. |
| Recall action type: | Correction |
| Recall action: | Software to be upgraded |
| Level of recall: | Hospital/Pharmacy/Laboratory |
| Date Commenced: | 28/5/2015 |
