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Defibrillator

One of the fastest-growing medical devices in use in the United States, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (IDCs) are implanted in the chests of heart patients to monitor and regulate heartbeat by generating electrical pulses. While IDCs are commonplace, with as many as 200,000 patients in the US estimated to have received one in 2005, they are complex devices and can malfunction for a variety of reasons. The average IDC lasts seven to ten years before needing to be replaced. However, depleted batteries and faulty memory chips have resulted in product recalls requiring patients to undergo more frequent replacement surgeries. Companies which have recalled IDCs include Guidant Corp., Medtronic Inc. and St. Jude Medical.

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Automated Defibrillators

There are many different types of defibrillators. An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a portable electronic device that diagnoses and treats cardiac arrest by re-establishing an... read more

Defibrillators -- An Overview

There are many medical devices used in the health industry to help save lives or to improve the quality of life for millions of individuals. Defibrillators are an electrical device used to... read more

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Jury Verdicts Related to Defibrillator

______ RECOVERY Negligence alleged against biomedical company for failing to thoroughly train employees/technical support staff with regard to surgical insertion of cardio/defibrillator - Support staff allegedly unaware of incompatibility of the product with the plaintiff patient, who apparently required the use of a special adapter - Plaintiff required to undergo additional surgery.

______ VERDICT AND $1,300,000 PRE-TRIAL SETTLEMENT- MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE - OBSTETRICS - NEGLIGENT FAILURE TO PROPERLY TREAT PREGNANT PATIENT, WITH HISTORY OF HEART CONDITION, WHO PRESENTS WITH COMPLAINTS OF CHEST PAIN - MOTHER FALLS INTO CARDIAC ARREST WHILE ALONE IN EXAMINATION ROOM - MUNICIPAL LIABILITY ADDITIONALLY ALLEGED FOR PERMITTING UNTRAINED PARAMEDICS TO RESPOND TO THE SCENE - INABILITY TO DEFIBRILLATE AT THE SCENE - DELAY IN RESUSCITATION - INFANT SUFFERS PRE-NATAL ASPHYXIA AND IS DELIVERED THREE

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