APC recall gets to the core of pacemaker shutdowns
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
UK company APC Medical is recalling certain batches of its 4170 single-chamber external Temporary Cardiac Pacemaker to perform modifications that it hopes will solve the device's shutdown problems, reported in April 2004. An investigation of the affected devices has not revealed the root cause of the problem, but there is evidence that electromagnetic interference at certain frequencies could be to blame.