Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Remote monitoring doesn’t always detect catastrophic pacemaker failure

 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937747

 

 News Release 13-Dec-2021
It can happen in a heartbeat:
Improved collaboration between industry, health systems, medical societies, and individual healthcare providers is needed to effectively manage implanted medical device recalls, according to an article published in Heart Rhythm Case Reports
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Elsevier

 

 Even after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety notice and recall, manufacturing defects in certain cardiac rhythm management (CRM) devices led to premature battery depletion that was not picked up by remote monitoring. A case report in Heart Rhythm Case Reports, an official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, published by Elsevier, documents two instances of premature battery failures in a recalled subset of St. Jude Assurity and Endurity pacemakers (manufactured by Abbott) that shed light on a potentially lethal flaw of remote monitoring.

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