Medtronics recall

I have a recalled medtronic lead and have been urged to follow up with a lawsuit against medtronic due to possible complications down the road, even possible death. Has anyone else been contacted and if so, what are you doing about it. I have heard that medtronic is offering $800.00 to replace the lead which does not cover the cost at all not to mention any complications that might occur.
When I ask my medtronic rep about replacing it she was very vague and acted like it was not their problem I had a recalled lead.
Please tell me what anyone els is doing or thinking about this situation.
bfloyd

5 Comments

leads

by thomast - 2007-12-27 05:12:26

Like RC, mine was recalibrated to be more sensitive as I have one of the recalled leads. The failure rate is so low, about 3% I believe that I am just going to continue as I did before. I don't know what they will do when I have to have a replacement. I have only had this unit about 2 1/2 years. The more sensitive setting did cause my patient alert to be set because of an epasode of AF that lasted about 2 minutes. I did not get zapped but it was trying to step me out of it. I was able to look at the printout from the PM and know what I was doing to cause it. I will know not to do that next time. Anyway I am just going to continue as before. I am not going to go to some ambulance chasing lawyer unless somehting more serious happens.

Medtronics recall

by rc - 2007-12-27 05:12:29

Hi,
I also have one of the recalled leads.
Your medtronics rep should have re-calibrated the audible portion of your devise to make the daily self-test more sensitive. If you hear the tones - notifiy your cardio doc.
From everything that I've read, replacing the leads is more of an issue than leaving them in place.
In my particular case, I was told that when it came time to replace battery and / or the devise itself that they would probably cap the existing lead and replace it with another but until that time -- just working on continuing with life.

tks
Rick


What were you doing?

by kyle0816 - 2007-12-27 06:12:18

thomast I was just curious what you were doing to cause the AF. Obviously if it's something you don't want to discuss I'm fine with that too :-).

AF

by thomast - 2007-12-27 08:12:47

No problem, with my weak heart altitude bothers me (we live at 450ft) We were at a motel at 4100 ft and I was taking in the luggage at the time it occurred the best I can figure. From now on I am going to avoid going anywhere that is is over 3000 ft.I know what you were thinking HA,HA. Forget it I am almost 76 and on several heart medications.

Thomast

by nccoda - 2007-12-30 05:12:48

You stated "I was able to look at the printout from the PM and know what I was doing to cause it" - how did you get a print out???? I have an ICD and I asked my EP about getting a print out of my interrogation but ain't gotten it yet!!!

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