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Posted on January 4, 2012 by Cynthia     Canadians are suing Medtronic over faulty Sprint Fidelis defribllator leads . The faulty leads were globally recalled by Medtronic in 2007. Lead wires are placed into a major vein and attached to interior heart muscle for the purpose of monitoring heart rhythm and transmitting electric shocks should an irregularity occur. If a lead breaks, the implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) can emit a massive and painful shock. In the worse...Read Full Story

There have been dual pacemakers in the picture on top of. There’s a typical clunky, stone shaped device with wires on the right — as well as upon a left, a device dwarfed even by the one-cent coin. This is a Medtronic wireless pacemaker, just revealed at TEDMED 2010, which can be implanted without delay into your heart around catheter and henceforth fasten itself into flesh with little claws. Then, doctors can wirelessly monitor and even control a device from the circuitously smartphone...Read Full Story

The Medtronic Sprint Fidelis defibrillator lead that was recalled by its manufacturer five years ago could deliver random shocks to the heart, a Canadian class-action lawsuit alleges. In 2007, Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc. issued a global recall of the special wires that link a patient’s heart with a defibrillator implanted in the body. Medtronic said at the time that it was stopping distribution of its pacemaker defibrillator wires for a fracture problem that may have be linked to...Read Full Story

There have been dual pacemakers in the picture on top of. There’s a typical clunky, stone shaped device with wires on the right — as well as upon a left, a device dwarfed even by the one-cent coin. This is a Medtronic wireless pacemaker, just revealed at TEDMED 2010, which can be implanted without delay into your heart around catheter and henceforth fasten itself into flesh with little claws. Then, doctors can wirelessly monitor and even control a device from the circuitously smartphone...Read Full Story

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Minnesota state court judge has dismissed a batch of lawsuits against Medtronic Inc stemming from the October 2007 recall of the medical device maker's Sprint Fidelis defibrillator leads. Minnesota District Court Judge Denise Reilly last week granted a motion by Medtronic to dismiss 600 separate personal injury claims related to use of the leads, which connect an implantable cardioverter defibrillator to a patient's heart and are the conduit for the electricity used to...Read Full Story