Defective Medical Products - Implantable Defibrillators

Guidant, which is now under the wing of Boston Scientific, took off like a rocket when it introduced its first implantable defibrillators. When they were not, and the products were recalled, the company took a nose dive into the confidence of the public, not to mention the goal has been widespread complaints of marketing defective medical devices.

Guidant began life as a small company in 1972 and was successful enough that Eli Lilly bought it in 1978. Her specialtywas finely crafted defibrillators, and they remained so that it no problems until 2005, when it failed still 26 cases of their product. Rumors abounded that the company knew about the problem before 2005 but it had none of it.

2005 was a bad year for Guidant as it issued safety advisories on 7 models of defibrillators and had some doctors recommend the phaseout of the 4 of these models. The catastrophe knew no bounds when a further nineModels were placed in the following weeks in question. The problem has been traced for 3 models of Guidant defibrillators, where the insulation on the wiring short-circuit.

Find out this is one thing, do something about it was different, and nothing was stopped in relation to production or done in regard to the lack of medical products. The company actually continued to sell them, and tries to resolve the short-out issue in later versions of their product. Obviously, other problems surfacedat the same time, but this time, including memory error in the programming. At the time these errors were exposed to more than 50,000 people had the potential to be affected by this defective medical product.

Defibrillators are used for patients with ventricular fibrillation and irregular heartbeats, which sometimes lead to stop the heart. Defibrillators should avoid absolute top quality, ventricular fibrillation and death.

The problem is that although there were complaints againstGuidant, there are still patients out there with potential time bombs implanted in the chest. While there are a patient, the decision is replaced, the process is risky and expensive.

If you or a loved one is one of the potentially defective Guidant heart defibrillators implanted, contact a defective medical device attorney and discuss your case.