Guidant Information

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Guidant Corporation is the second-largest manufacturer of implantable defibrillators. They also manufacture pacemakers, cardiac surgery systems, and other medical devices.

While both pacemakers and defibrillators are implanted under the skin, they serve different purposes. A pacemaker sends electrical pulses to regulate a heart that is beating too fast or too slowly. A defibrillator emits an electrical shock intended to interrupt a chaotic and deadly type of heart rhythm.

Guidant announced a recall of nearly 50,000 heart defibrillator medical devices, and expanded the recall on when the company announced an additional 46,000 devices were potentially defective.

As of October 2005, Guidant reported it was aware of over 50 reports of device failures, including three cases in which the patients died. Guidant has acknowledged that the actual rate of failure may be higher than the reported rate and that the number of associated deaths may be underreported, since implantable cardio-defibrillators are not routinely evaluated after death.

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