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product_liability guidantOn June 17, 2005 the following Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD''s) were recalled by the Guidant Corporation:
The devices affected by the July 17, 2005 recall are 29,000 defibrillators. 20,600 of the devices were implanted in the USA.
During the same press release, Guidant also informed the FDA that it was to recall the following defibrillators becasue of "memory errors."
This set of programming flaws caused the recall of 21,000 ICDs, 18,000 of those were implanted in the USA.
Boston Scientific Corp. has amended a settlement agreement involving faulty Guidant defibrillator claims to include an additional $45 million, bringing the total settlement amount to $2...
A statement released yesterday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urged patients with potentially defective models of Boston Scientific/Guidant pacemakers and defibrillators to schedule an exam with their physicians as soon as possible.
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration analysis found that Guidant defibrillators may fail as much as 10 times more than the company projected last year.
Guidant defibrillators have been implanted into thousands of cardiac patients and are used t...