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On July 18, 2005 Guidant placed a voluntary recall on certain pacemakers after it received reports from about 69 pacemakers that may have leaked. Guidant pacemakers that were recalled include:

PULSAR® MAX Models 1170, 1171, 1270
PULSAR Models 0470, 0870, 0970, 0972, 1172, 1272
DISCOVERY® Models 1174, 1175, 1273, 1274, 1275
MERIDIAN® Models 0476, 0976, 1176, 1276
PULSAR MAX II Models 1180, 1181, 1280
DISCOVERY II Models 0481, 0981, 1184, 1186, 1187, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286
CONTAK TR® Model 1241
VIRTUS PLUS® II* Models 1380, 1480
INTELIS II Models 1483, 1484, 1485, 1384, 1385, 1349, 1499

The models affected were manufactured between November 25, 1997 and October 26, 2000. A seal within the devices can leak which causes moisture to affect the electric circuits of the pacemakers. When the device fails it can cause faintness or loss of consciousness and can cause death. Leakage can also cause a side effect of a rapid heartbeat that can cause heart failure and death.

Guidant Defibrillator Recalls

On May 24, 2005 the Guidant Corporation announced that it was voluntarily recalling 50,000 defibrillators, 29,000 of these defibrillators due to manufacturing flaws, which could cause them to short-circuit. A short-circuit in a defibrillator would cause the device to fail in its duty to “shock” a patient’s heart to restore its normal rhythmic pattern, which could cause the patient to go into cardiac arrest if they were unable to seek immediate alternate medical attention. An upcoming article in the New York Times about the death of a 21-year-old college student due to the malfunction of his Guidant Defibrillator motivated this recall. Guidant has offered to replace those faulty defibrillators still implanted in patients as per doctor/ patient discretion. Similarly, in February 2005, Medtronic Inc. announced that 87,000 of its defibrillators have a battery malfunction, which causes the battery to drain at a faster rate then normal; posing a risk to .2-1.5% of those implanted which Medtronic defibrillators.

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