Abbott is recalling the Ellipse Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) because electrical failures have been identified and determined to be due to a faulty manufacturing process, causing some aluminum wires to be partially exposed. ICDs which contain aluminum wires that are not fully insulated are prone to electrical shorting of the capacitor. The potential patient impact could be the inability to deliver high voltage therapy. There is currently no available method or procedure to determine which of these devices have this issue prior to failure.
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The current standard of care for heart failure (HF) is guideline-directed medical therapy combined with device-based ...
June 16, 2020 - Biotronik has today announced its commitment to giving physicians additional tools to pace in the His ...
September 20, 2019 — BioTrace Medical Inc. announced the company’s key activities at the 31st annual Transcatheter ...
August 5, 2019 — Abbott is recalling the Ellipse Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) because electrical ...
May 13, 2019 — BioTrace Medical Inc. announced the company’s Tempo Lead has obtained CE Mark certification in Europe for ...
May 6, 2019 — Medtronic has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Attain Stability Quad MRI ...
This is a virtual heart with the same electrophysiology characteristics as the real patient being developed to help ...

Interventional cardiac resynchronization therapy (I-CRT) describes the repurposing of a set of tools and techniques ...

To extract or abandon broken or infected implantable, venous electrophysiology (EP) device leads has been a debate for ...
August 9, 2018 — Medtronic plc announced the start of a pilot study of its investigational Extravascular Implantable ...
May 24, 2018 - Medtronic plc announced results from a research study demonstrating the feasibility of a novel approach ...
May 18, 2018 — Data on the effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with non-left bundle ...
May 10, 2018 – A new study is the first to test the clinical effectiveness of incremental peri-operative antibiotics as ...
March 6, 2018 – Nihon Kohden announced the launch of the Nihon Kohden Dimensions Augmented Reality (AR) App to ...
September 27, 2017 — Spectranetics is recalling its Bridge Occlusion Balloon Catheter due to the possibility of a ...