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Consumerist: Medtronic Stops Selling Faulty Defibrillators
Medtronic is "recalling" its latest heart defibrillator models because of faulty wiring, which could lead to either it not working when you most need it, or it shocking you randomly in the heart with painful electric jolts.
Medtronic is "recalling" its latest heart defibrillator models because of faulty wiring, which could lead to either it not working when you most need it, or it shocking you randomly in the heart with painful electric jolts.
This isn't quite what the NY Times said. Not that there's nothing to worry about, but the defibrillators aren't faulty at all.
New York Times: Patients Warned as Maker Halts Sale of Heart Implant Part
The nation’s largest maker of implanted heart devices, Medtronic, said yesterday that it was urging doctors to stop using a crucial component in its most recent defibrillator models because it was prone to a defect that has caused malfunctions in hundreds of patients and may have contributed to five deaths.
The faulty component is an electrical “lead,” or a wire that connects the heart to a defibrillator, a device that shocks faltering hearts back into normal rhythm. The company is urging all of the roughly 235,000 patients with the lead, known as the Sprint Fidelis, to see their doctors to make sure it has not developed a fracture that can make the device misread heart-rhythm data.
The nation’s largest maker of implanted heart devices, Medtronic, said yesterday that it was urging doctors to stop using a crucial component in its most recent defibrillator models because it was prone to a defect that has caused malfunctions in hundreds of patients and may have contributed to five deaths.
The faulty component is an electrical “lead,” or a wire that connects the heart to a defibrillator, a device that shocks faltering hearts back into normal rhythm. The company is urging all of the roughly 235,000 patients with the lead, known as the Sprint Fidelis, to see their doctors to make sure it has not developed a fracture that can make the device misread heart-rhythm data.
There are so many IFs, MAYs, MIGHTs and COULDs in that text that it seems obvious to me that panic is not called for. My doctors are on top of my situation, and in fact I'm going into the hospital tomorrow to have my own lead seen to.
Of course, I'm going to ask if the Sprint Fidelis is what I have, too.
Addenum: It is.
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