Medtronic Lawsuit

A seventy-three-year-old Canadian man is the first person to receive Medtronic’s revolutionary heart monitoring device.  The device has wires that extend throughout the body to different veins and also directly to the heart.
Remarkably, it then sends vital information about the patient to the doctor via a transmitter then downloads the information into the […]

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An eight-year-old school girl from Bucksburn has been fitted with the world’s smallest pacemaker.  As a result, Chloe has been given a chance to get back to a normal life again.  She has started swimming again and playing many other forms of sports. 
The little girl has become an inspiration to the rest of the […]

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Recently Medtronic has announced that it will release a new product worldwide.  This time the device is what’s called the Endurant stent graft, which is set to be releases in mid-July.  It will be used by physicians to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms through endovascular treatment methods. 
The European regulatory board approved the device last week […]

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A new kind of implantable defibrillator may be susceptable to computer hacking. The new device transmits information via a computer system daily, making the system vulnerable to hacking. Hackers may gain access to patient information and, even worse, could be able to reprogram the defibrillator.
These defibrillator transmissions are not encrypted, which means that private patient […]

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Two more men have filed lawsuits against the Minnesota based Medtronics manufacturing company. Randie Green and Anton Muller of Illinois claim that their surgically implanted defibrillators containted defective batteries. The two men had their defibrillators removed shortly after reading about the faulty product in several news reports.
Currently, around 87,000 Medtronic defibrillators and pacemakers are used […]

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