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Guidant Pacemaker | Defibrillator Recall News Article |
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| September 22, 2005 |
San Francisco
Chronicle, "Guidant Warns on Two
Pacemaker Lines" |
Guidant
Corp. said Thursday [Sept. 22, 2005] it recalled
some of its Insignia and Nexus implantable pacemakers
because of failures, including nine cases requiring
emergency hospitalization.
Since June, Guidant has
June recalled 88,000 heart defibrillators -- including its leading seller,
the Contak Renewal 3 -- and issued warnings about 28,000 pacemakers because
of malfunctions. Analysts said those actions applied to about 20 percent of the
company's products.
In its latest warning,
the company said the failures had happened at low rates with the two families
of pacemakers, but that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had labeled as
a recall its notice that some of the devices might permanently lose pacing output
without warning. A pacemaker sends electrical pulses to the heart to correct
a slow heartbeat.
Other reported failures
include loss of telemetry and appearance of a reset warning message. |
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