Blogs Posts on "Medtronic"
A New Medtronic Defibrillator Advisory Issued Today by Dr. Wes on Sep 10, 2009Today, an announcement was issued to doctors implanting Medtronic's Concerto and Virtuoso wireless implantable cardiac defibrillator's (ICDs) that a certain lot of 5,200 devices in the US of the total 158,000 implanted worldwide have demonstrated pre...
Medtronic recalls certain Paradigm® Quick-Set® Infusion Sets by Medicine and Technology by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH on Jul 13, 2009If you have diabetes and you're using a Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm insulin pump, you'll want to read this:According to the FDA, Medtronic, Inc. has initiated a voluntary recall of specific lots of Quick-set® infusion sets that are used with MiniMed...
Medtronic: Pacemaker Defects by Medicine and Technology by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH on May 20, 2009Some people out there rely on a pacemaker to survive. Others may have a pacemaker as a "backup" in case their heart rate drops or does something funny. Medtronic has warned physicians that 37,000 Kappa pacemakers may have a defect which can cause the...
Medtronic Issues New Pacemaker Advisory by Dr. Wes on May 18, 2009Today, Medtronic began notifying physicians and patients about a new advisory (pdf) on some of their Kappa and Sigma series of pacemakers manufactured between 2000 and 2002. The defect stems from certain "voids" created in the solder joint where the...
Medtronic will take more jobs by Diabetes information on May 11, 2009Medtronic Inc on Monday announced it will take 1,400 more jobs over the next five years at a new customer support facility in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its growing diabetes customers. Medtronic is a device maker which expects to begin recru...
Man vs. Machine During CPR by Dr. Wes on May 7, 2009Sometimes, even our best efforts to save lives fails us.In an effort to minimize the time to deliver shocks in patients in cardiac arrest, hospitals across the country have turned to automatic external defibrillators to reduce the time to first shock...
Sensei Launches iPhone Application for Diabetes by Medicine and Technology by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH on Apr 16, 2009If you have diabetes, you're probably used to gadgets. If you have type 1 diabetes, you probably wear an insulin pump and you're really familiar with gadgets. In the world of diabetes, you have glucose monitors (from companies like Accu-Check. LifeSc...
On Sprint Fidelis Lead Extraction by Dr. Wes on Apr 8, 2009The New York Times published an article in their business section (interesting location to put such an article, but I digress) about extracting the Medtronic's advisory Sprint Fidelis defibrillator "cable" recently. (Note to their editors, it's actu...
More Concerning News About Medtronic's Sprint Fidelis Lead by Dr. Wes on Feb 24, 2009... was published online before print in the journal Heart Rhythm yesterday:"... the hazard of Sprint Fidelis failure accelerated after the first year and continued to increase during the study. In contrast to other defibrillator leads, the Sprint Fi
