Orange City Council has been advised of a product recall of 16 Automated External Defibrillators (AED) across Orange.
According to the Australian Government's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the manufacturer Stryker is conducting an Urgent Recall of certain serial numbers of the HeartSine Defibrillators.
The TGA said: "A manufacturing problem related to a circuit board component may impair the device's ability to function or cause failure. This failure could occur at any point when the device is holding a charge. This may be in preparation to deliver therapy, while delivering a shock, or after shock delivery. The device becomes inoperable after the failure occurs. The problem was observed during quality testing and not during patient use."
Orange City Council has removed the 16 devices and is waiting on advice from Stryker on a replacement times.
While Stryker advises that AEDs remain in place until replacements are available, Council has chosen to remove the devices due to concerns about potential malfunction and the associated risk to community safety.
For people having medical episode that might require the use of an AED it is recommended to ring 000. Orange City Council has placed signage at the AED sites providing that advice.
The 16 sites are as follows:
| Location | Street address | Location details | |
| 1 | Shiralee | Shiralee Road | Next to TSR path |
| 2 | Clifton Grove | Banjo Paterson Way | towards Rossi Drive near green Clifton Grove sign |
| 3 | Glenroi | Garema Rd | Youth Hub |
| 4 | Glenroi/Bowen | Mitchell Highway | Memory Park |
| 5 | Bowen | Spring St | Margaret Stevenson Park playground |
| 6 | Bowen | Leeds Parade | Corner before Honeyman Drive |
| 7 | North Orange | William Maker / Glasson Dr | Playground at corner Glasson Dr |
| 8 | Bletchington | Hill St (North) | Corner of Hill St and Roselawn Dr |
| 9 | Bletchington/Central | Hill St (Central) | Jaeger Reserve playground |
| 10 | Central/Warrendine | Woodward St | Elephant Park playground |
| 11 | Shiralee | Canobolas Road / Pinnacle Rd | Grass area on Towac side |
| 12 | Bletchington/Calare | Burrendong Way | Entry to Somerset Park |
| 13 | Calare | Sieben Drive | Max Stewart Oval |
| 14 | Highway towards Ammerdown | Mitchell Highway | Corner Mitchell highway (Molong Rd) / Northern Distributor |
| 15 | Ploughmans (North) | Jonathon Rd | Playground before Braeburn Cresc |
| 16 | Ploughmans | Stirling Ave | Stirling Park/playground |
