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The Guidant Company, maker of heart defibrillators, has announced a voluntary recall of seven different kinds of the questionable devices. The recall includes nearly 50,000 cardiac defibrillators currently implanted in human hearts in Texas and around the world. Seven different types of the product have been recalled; the Contak Renewal, the Contak Renewal 2, the Ventak Prizm AVT, the Prism 2 DR, the Renewal 4 AVT ICDS, the Vitality AVT, and the Renewal 3 AVT. These devices are intended to shock hearts back to a regular beat if and when it begins to beat irregularly.
As reported by USA Today.com (June 17, 2005), the company got into trouble this spring when they did not alert doctors as to possible problems with the defibrillators. Afterward the company stated that they thought the defibrillators had failed 45 times and caused at least 2 deaths. The Food and Drug Administration has release a statement saying that they completely agree that Guidant should recall the product in Texas and throughout the United States.

Guidant is recommending those with heart defibrillators continue to see their doctors at the normally recommended three-month intervals. They've also said that the Renewal AVT, Prizm AVT and the Vitality AVT's risk can be reduced with a program change, which the doctors are able to perform. If needed, the other types of defective defibrillators will need to be changed free of charge.

On June 1 attorneys for Pennsylvanian John Brennan, filed a lawsuit alleging that Guidant knew about an electrical problem that caused the device to stop working, but they did not tell doctors or patients. Mr. Brennan's suit seeks class-action status for approximately 24,000 people who had the Ventak Prizm 2 Model 1861 implanted. The suit also alleges that Guidant also kept the information from the Food and Drug Administration, allowing them to approve use of the defibrillators in 1994 and 1997.

Guidant has been acquired by Boston Scientific. Hopefully this changeover will aid in fixing the problems in that allow deadly defects such as this one to pass through the cracks and hurt innocent people.

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