Defibrillator reliability: Guidant, Medtronic and St Jude on the spot
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The three main manufacturers of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) have all been dragged into the headlines this week, and not for the best of reasons. After a run of damaging announcements, analysts concluded that the take-home message is that we must not forget that no implantable, electronic device is failsafe, and that no manufacturer's business is immune from damage when something goes wrong.