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Guidant Pacemaker | Defibrillator Recall News Article |
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| May
24, 2005 |
The
New York Times, "Defibrillator
Maker Didn't Reveal Problem" |
The
maker of an internal heart defibrillator is
acknowledging it waited three years before
telling some 24,000 patients and their doctors
about an electrical problem that caused a small
fraction of the implanted devices to short-circuit.
The admission by
Indianapolis-based Guidant Corp., first reported Tuesday by The
New York Times,
came about after a Minnesota college student died on a spring break bicycling
trip in March.
The death of 21-year-old
Joshua Oukrop, who had a genetic heart disease, is the only one known.
Guidant disclosed
the flaw in its Ventak Prizm 2 Model 1861 to Oukrop's doctors and told them about
25 other cases in which the defibrillator had malfunctioned, the newspaper reported.
It did not, however, issue an alert to physicians until it learned the newspaper
was preparing a story on the defibrillator. |
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