FDA-cleared profile

BladderScan Prime PLUS System

Verathon Incorporated

Authorized purpose: BladderScan Prime PLUS is a diagnostic ultrasound system with a bladder indication for noninvasive measurement of urine volume in the bladder using the supported probe and device configuration.

Evidence status: each field states its source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established, and vendor documentation pending remain distinct outcomes.

Product overview

Start with the essentials

Authorized purpose: BladderScan Prime PLUS is a diagnostic ultrasound system with a bladder indication for noninvasive measurement of urine volume in the bladder using the supported probe and device configuration.

Overview status: Source-reviewed overview

Clinical takeaway

Clinical role: BladderScan Prime PLUS is a diagnostic ultrasound system with a bladder indication for noninvasive measurement of urine volume in the bladder using the supported probe and device configuration.

Evidence takeaway

Evidence from the reviewed source record: The exact FDA 510(k) decision material establishes the submission identity, labeled use, inputs, population, and configuration boundary summarized here. No product-wide clinical-performance or outcome claim is promoted without an exact endpoint and version linkage.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

Start with the authorized purpose, then verify how it fits your service line and reading workflow.

Exact purpose
BladderScan Prime PLUS is a diagnostic ultrasound system with a bladder indication for noninvasive measurement of urine volume in the bladder using the supported probe and device configuration.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Intended users
Qualified physicians, sonographers, and other appropriately trained ultrasound professionals.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Care setting and population
Hospitals, clinics, point-of-care locations, offices, and procedural settings within the labeled applications.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Workflow role
Diagnostic ultrasound acquisition, measurement, analysis, and professional review support.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Required input
Ultrasound acquisitions from supported probes, modes, presets, patient populations, and release-specific configurations.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Output and human action
Ultrasound image series, flow data, measurements, calculations, overlays, or reports for professional review.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Limitations
Probe, mode, anatomy, population, acoustic window, workflow, and optional-feature limits vary by exact system and release.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

The FDA listing establishes the regulatory identity. It does not by itself establish local workflow fit, pricing, security, or performance in your environment.

FDA submission
K172356
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
Ultrasound
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Anatomy
Bladder
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Clearance type
510(k)
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2017-09-15
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
FDA status
FDA-cleared
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Implementation

Questions for IT, informatics, and operations

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Integration
Standards-based DICOM/PACS integration was identified in the FDA submission materials; compatibility with a specific PACS, RIS, EHR, or orchestrator requires confirmation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-13

Normalized from the prior exact-submission review. Confirm interface versions and local compatibility during technical evaluation.

Deployment and data flow
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

The exact FDA decision material does not establish the complete deployment topology, hosting responsibility, availability, upgrade path, or service contract.

Security and privacy
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

Public materials reviewed for this exact release do not establish the complete security posture. Request data-flow, identity, audit, encryption, retention, remote-access, vulnerability-management, backup, and incident-response evidence.

Training and support
Only qualified physicians, sonographers, and other appropriately trained ultrasound professionals should operate or interpret the product. Local onboarding should cover the exact release, supported population, limitations, failure examples, escalation, downtime, and competency documentation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Monitoring and change control
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
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The exact FDA decision and checked recall snapshot do not establish a complete local postmarket monitoring protocol. Track version, population, anatomy, protocol, input quality, edits, failures, repeats, downstream effects, downtime, incidents, recalls, and updates locally.

Release and scope verification

Map the installed model, build, options, population, anatomy, inputs, outputs, and enabled functions to K172356 before acceptance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Later product-family features are not evidence that this cleared release includes them.

Interoperability acceptance

Exact public integration details remain incomplete; establish and test the supported input, output, identity, routing, archive, report, and downtime contract locally.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Test representative identifiers, orientation, geometry, measurements, units, routing, failure handling, and round trips locally.

Clinical acceptance

Use a signed local test set for the exact labeled population and workflow. Include common and difficult cases, exclusions, acquisition variation, failed or low-quality inputs, reviewer overrides, and downstream effects. Probe, mode, anatomy, population, acoustic window, workflow, and optional-feature limits vary by exact system and release.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Define stop-use, escalation, rollback, and revalidation triggers before production use.

Economic evaluation

Model capital and recurring cost against net staff time after review, throughput, repeat imaging or rework, room time, consumables, infrastructure, training, service, downtime, upgrade, and replacement costs.

product family · checked 2026-09-04

No exact-product price was found in reviewed public material; productivity or value claims require local evidence.

Lifecycle monitoring

Monitor by exact hardware, software, model, and algorithm version; patient population; anatomy; protocol; operator; input quality; output edits or overrides; failed studies; repeat acquisition or rework; downstream impact; downtime; incidents; recalls; and updates.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Revalidate after material software, hardware, model, protocol, interface, or clinical-policy changes. An exact-submission recall match exists; confirm affected model, version, units, correction, and completion status before acceptance.

Evidence

Performance evidence

Metrics are shown only when they are tied to a source, endpoint, population, and tested product version. Candidate literature without exact product and version linkage is not shown as product evidence.

Evidence summary
The exact FDA 510(k) decision material establishes the submission identity, labeled use, inputs, population, and configuration boundary summarized here. No product-wide clinical-performance or outcome claim is promoted without an exact endpoint and version linkage.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Reported sensitivity
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
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No exact submission-linked sensitivity endpoint with a verified population, threshold, tested version, and source was promoted.

Reported specificity
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
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No exact submission-linked specificity endpoint with a verified population, threshold, tested version, and source was promoted.

No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.

K172356 FDA evidence package for BladderScan Prime PLUS System

  • DesignFDA 510(k) decision evidence package reviewed for exact submission identity and labeled scope
  • PopulationLabeled population and configuration described in the K172356 FDA decision material
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionBladderScan Prime PLUS configuration described in K172356
  • IndependenceSponsor or vendor study

K172356

Manufacturer evidence submitted for the exact FDA decision. It is not independent clinical validation, and local technical, clinical, privacy, security, and workflow acceptance remains necessary.

Costs and setup

Budget and ongoing governance

These are common procurement questions; unknown values remain visible until a source supports them.

Pricing and total cost
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

No public list price for the exact cleared configuration was found. Obtain a written quote separating license or hardware basis, implementation, interfaces, infrastructure, training, service, upgrades, renewal, consumables, and exit costs.

Reimbursement and coding
No separate named-product Medicare payment was identified in the reviewed CMS coverage material. Evaluate the product within the applicable imaging, procedural, or surgical service line and verify payer, site-of-service, and coding assumptions independently.
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  • Not applicable
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No product-specific code

No separate named-product payment identified in reviewed public material

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · United States

Build a local total-cost and value model; do not infer reimbursement from FDA clearance or approval.

Safety and lifecycle

Postmarket record

Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.

Postmarket safety review
1 exact-submission FDA recall record matched K172356 in the 2026-09-02 openFDA snapshot. Confirm affected model, version, units, correction, and current manufacturer instructions locally. FDA recall Z-0531-2021 is Terminated for BladderScan Prime Plus Probe REF 0570-0395 - Product Usage: intended to be used for measuring the urine volume in the bladder noninvasively.. FDA reason: Due to a change in handle material and process, probe handle may crack. FDA action: On 10/5/2020, the firm sent a "Field Defect Correction URGENT MEDICAL DEVICE RECALL" Notification to its U.S, Customers via FedEx informing them that due to an unauthorized manufacturing change, the probe handle's plastic may become brittle and crack. Customer are instructed to: 1. Review the information contained within this Recall Notice with all staff members who should be aware of the contents of the letter. 2. Check the list of Serial Numbers that are provided within the Recall Response Form. 3. Perform a visual inspection of the probe handle for cracks or damage. 4. Based on the visual inspection of your device(s), please do one of the following: a. Unboxing and Initial Use " If your BladderScan Prime Plus probe handle plastics have no visible cracks or damage and / or you do not wish for units to be serviced, complete the attached Recall Response Form by indicating no or 0 in the text box and return the form to Verathon by email to CSNotifications@verathon.com. Or " If your BladderScan Prime Plus probe handle plastics have visible cracks and you wish for these units to be serviced, complete attached Recall Response Form by indicating by number the count of probe handle plastics that require repair in the text box and return the form by email to CSNotifications@verathon.com. Verathon Customer Care will contact you to arrange for repair of the probe handle plastics. This replacement will be at no charge to you. b. Subsequent Use If subsequent to submitting your Recall Response Form your BladderScan Prime Plus probes develop cracks (reference Figure 1) during subsequent use and you wish for them to be serviced, please email CSNotifications@verathon.com. Verathon Customer Care will contact you to arrange for repair of the probe handle plastics. This replacement will be at no charge to you. Follow the instructions within the BladderScan Prime Plus Operations and Maintenance Manual...
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Each published event was manually matched to the exact FDA submission and affected product or version; a recall does not establish an AI-algorithm defect or current site exposure unless the event states that scope.

recall: Z-0531-2021

Terminated

2020-09-29

Native exact-submission identifier match from the openFDA candidate snapshot accessed 2026-09-04 with source snapshot date 2026-09-02. Source URL: https://api.fda.gov/device/recall.json?search=product_res_number.exact%3A%22Z-0531-2021%22&limit=1. This does not establish exact installed serial, lot, unit, or software-version applicability. The FDA record does not establish an AI-algorithm defect unless it says so.

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Research record

What has been checked

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Human reviewedStatus
2026-09-04Last searched
27Fields reviewed
13Source classes checked
0Screened PubMed leads
0Screened trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

The refreshed discovery snapshot contains no PubMed or ClinicalTrials.gov candidates; no external evidence was promoted. The current discovery snapshot contains 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records; its dated, count-matched human screening remains current. Unlinked candidates remain quarantined. 1 FDA recall candidate was manually reviewed: 1 published and 0 rejected as a neighboring or otherwise inapplicable version. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 1 postmarket candidate record; 1 has been reviewed (1 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads were screened against the exact product and tested version. Unlinked records remain quarantined.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, acr ai central product, fda decision material, peer reviewed literature, clinical trial registry, reimbursement policy, fda device recall, literature index, trial registry, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

How this profile was documented

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Source ledger

  1. FDA 510(k) decision material K172356: BladderScan Prime PLUS System

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2017-09-15 - Accessed 2026-09-04

    Scope: identity, purpose, clinicalUse, modality, anatomy, intendedUsers, careSetting, workflowRole, input, output, limitations, evidenceSummary

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-08-31

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. BladderScan PRIME PLUS system model card (K172356)

    American College of Radiology - Published 2026-06-26 - Accessed 2026-09-01

  4. FDA recall Z-0531-2021: BladderScan Prime Plus Probe REF 0570-0395 - Product Usage: intended to be used for measuring the urine volume in the bladder noninvasively.

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-04

    Scope: postmarketSafety, affectedProduct, recallStatus, correctiveAction

  5. PubMed biomedical literature index

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  6. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  7. Medicare Coverage Database

    Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: coverage, codingContext

  8. openFDA Device Recall API

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-02

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

Research history

  1. K172356 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    human reviewed

  3. Reader overview source-reviewed

    Editorial review

    Source-reviewed editorial overlay

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