Re: Defective Defibrillators

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I also read about the following defective defibrillators at
http://www.schmidtandclark.com

On February 11, 2005, Medtronic Inc. issued a statement to
physicians advising them that over 80,000 implantable
cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac
resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) are prone
to battery depletion and failure.? The battery shorting
mechanism could cause the battery in these defibrillators to
experience a rapid depletion of power resulting in the loss
of device function.? The particular devices affected were
manufactured between April 2001 and December 2003 and
include:

Marquis VR Model 7230
Marquis DR Model 7274
Maximo VR Model 7232
Maximo DR Model 7278
InSync Marquis Model 7277
InSync II Marquis Model 7289
InSync III Marquis Model 7279