Heart device recall by Guidant and Medtronic

The FDA is notifying health care providers and patients that various pacemakers & implantable cardiac defibrillators made by Guidant & Medtronic are being recalled for device defects causing heart attack, strokes and even death; Guidant & Medtronic knowingly continued to sell the defective devices. Levin Papantonio Law Firm, located in Pensacola Florida, has attorneys licensed to practice in Florida. For more information go to http://www.levinlaw.com/PracticeAreas/defective_implanted_heart_devices_guida... or please contact our experienced Implanted Heart Device lawyers, 888-435-7001.

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[blite13]

@michelverheughe Listen to EVERYTHING, do not trust your doctors like they are the saviour of out lives. they work for people above them and they try to keep THEM happy before they will try to keep YOU happy. These things are implanted without our consent, they tell us we HAVE to have them. Have you heard how much people received as far as compensation for being implanted with defective devices? $500.00, the lawyers are making HUGE AMOUNTS. We are just experiments, it's disgusting.

[blite13]

@Twilight008 I have had 3 of these devices since 2001, ALL 3 HAVE BEEN DEFECTIVE. I am in the guidant lawsuit, I have had unexplained shocks, I have had a battery die when it was showing a 1/3rd still available. It warned me once, if I had been asleep while it only gave one warning, I would be dead. I have had events where I was shocked 4 times in a couple of minutes, twice. I have had shocks that set my heart rate so high I pass out and get shocked again while out. Doc couldn't explain why.

[Twilight008]

They are obviously defective, and yet the people making these devices continue to make these machines, killing off people. My neighbor as well as my grandmother encountered such a fate, and her health began to deteriorate immediately upon implantation. Please, if you can, do NOT get this device and spread the word. People are dying!

[Samwithus]

Our granddaughter was 3 days old when she had a Guidant pacemaker with a Medtronic lead. Within 2 weeks her doctor had concerns on the performance of the pacemaker. Guidant never got back to him and 14 months later our granddaughter died. Guidant never tested the pacemaker with the Medtronic lead. Guidant never told the FDA or the doctors. Companies like these need to put people lives over profit.

[BluelightSpike]

I have a Guidant device, how old r u?

[michelverheughe]

I got a Medtronic ICD implanted three weeks ago here, in Norway. My friend, listen to your doctor and not to the news. No one is wishing our death; they do the best they can. Half a century ago you and I would be six feet under by now. Live well and be happy.

[123suzieq]

I have this medtronic device. Keep me in your prayers