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ICD/Pacemaker

Trials and Fibrillations Post up: St Jude Riata Lead Update

If you have not already heard, there was more news (see theHeart.org) on the troubled St Jude Medical Riata family of ICD leads. The high voltage leads were recalled in December of 2011 and estimates are that 79,000 remain implanted. Perhaps more problematic for the company is the structural similarity of its current ICD lead […]

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ICD/Pacemaker

New developments in St Jude Medical’s Riata lead failure

There is a big story out today in the small world of electrophysiology. I’ll try to give it a non-technical wide-angle view. My friend and fellow real world doctor, Dr. Jay Schloss from Cincinnati is at it again. Jay conitunes on his quest to give doctors and patients the most useable information possible on the […]

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ICD/Pacemaker

When medical devices show their human-ness…

…patients might die. My newest post is up on Trials and Fibrillations over at theHeart.org. A heart rhythm doctor makes a living using and installing medical devices. These man-made, man-engineered and man-maneuvered devices can sometimes epitomize beautiful therapies. (Ask the former vice-president if he likes medical devices.) When used skillfully, complex medical devices may save […]