St. Jude Medical Inc. issued a field advisory on Oct. 11 warning physicians and patients of the potential for batteries in certain implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization defibrillators to deplete prematurely.
The company says about 0.21% of ICDs and CRT-Ds manufactured before May 23, 2015, may run out of power prematurely due to lithium deposits in the batteries. The company is...
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