CAUTION
The user and/or patient should report any serious product-related incident to both the manufacturer
and the national competent authority of where the user and/or patient is established.
Stryker
• Performing procedures with instruments other than
those specified in these instructions or outside of their
intended use will compromise the navigation accuracy.
• Use only Stryker approved components and accessories,
unless otherwise specified. Do not modify any compo-
nent or accessory. Failure to comply may result in
patient and/or healthcare staff injury.
• After assembly, check that all components fit properly
and securely into each other.
• Avoid subjecting the product to serious strains, such as
heavy impacts. After a heavy impact, the product must
be checked for defects. The product cannot be used if
there are visible defects.
• ALWAYS use a sterile drape to separate a sterile device
from a non-sterile zone.
• ALWAYS use a correct and rigidly installed patient
tracker or a table interfaces like skull clamp.
• In case of known pre-existing conditions of variants of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Disease (CJD) of the patient, ALWAYS
ensure that the product is quarantined and not being
used further. ALWAYS follow the recommendation of the
national authorities (eg. WHO, RKI or CDC) concerning
Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Disease.
• Do not expose the product to a high magnetic field such
as from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device.
• Prior to surgery, ALWAYS ensure that all required
components are available for the procedure.
• ALWAYS handle the equipment with care. DO NOT drop
the device.
Safety information
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