- Integration
- DICOM ultrasound workflow, X-Link bedside-device data matching, optional wireless probe charging, and voice control; validate patient matching, timing, device compatibility, archive, probes, and local infection-control workflow.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
- Deployment and data flow
- Mobile ultrasound console with supported probes, options, network interfaces, and accessories.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
- Security and privacy
- Vendor documentation pending
Vendor confirmation Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Public materials reviewed for this batch do not establish the complete security posture for the exact release. Request data-flow, identity, audit, encryption, retention, support-access, vulnerability-management, backup, and incident-response evidence.
- Training and support
- Only competent physicians, sonographers, anesthesiology and critical-care clinicians, and trained ultrasound professionals. should operate or interpret the system. Local onboarding should cover the exact release, supported population, limitations, failure examples, escalation, downtime, and competency documentation.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
- Monitoring and change control
- Monitor by exact hardware, software and model 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. Track the limits that matter for this product: Smart Nerve is limited to recognizing interscalene and supraclavicular brachial plexus for visualization and is not intended for live guidance during an intervention. Later TEX20 product-family features must not be attributed to K212265 without version mapping.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Release and scope verification
Map the installed model, build, options, population, anatomy, inputs, and outputs to K212265 before acceptance.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-03 Later product-family features are not evidence that this cleared release includes them.
Interoperability acceptance
DICOM ultrasound workflow, X-Link bedside-device data matching, optional wireless probe charging, and voice control; validate patient matching, timing, device compatibility, archive, probes, and local infection-control workflow.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-03 Test representative identifiers, orientation, geometry, measurements, units, routing, failure handling, and round trips locally.
Clinical acceptance
Use a signed local test set for the supported population and workflow. Include common and difficult cases, exclusions, acquisition variation, failed or low-quality inputs, reviewer overrides, and downstream effects. Smart Nerve is limited to recognizing interscalene and supraclavicular brachial plexus for visualization and is not intended for live guidance during an intervention. Later TEX20 product-family features must not be attributed to K212265 without version mapping.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-03 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 2026-09-03 Vendor productivity claims are scenario inputs, not guaranteed local savings.
Lifecycle monitoring
Monitor by exact hardware, software and model 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. Track the limits that matter for this product: Smart Nerve is limited to recognizing interscalene and supraclavicular brachial plexus for visualization and is not intended for live guidance during an intervention. Later TEX20 product-family features must not be attributed to K212265 without version mapping.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-03 Revalidate after material software, hardware, model, protocol, interface, or clinical-policy changes.