One should note that most patients with ICDs die without ever having their data entered into MAUDE.
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Defective batteries have affected only 0.01% of the most recently recalled ICDs and have been fixed on recent models.
Al-Khatib found that many patients who were being implanted with the ICDs had recently experienced arrhythmias or cardiac arrests.
Bum batteries have affected only 0.01% of the most recently recalled ICDs and have been fixed on recent models.
For example, we have clear studies that have shown that ICDs do not improve survival for some groups of patients.
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But the government's main effort to tackle child malnutrition, the Integrated Childhood Development Service (ICDS), has failed for rather different reasons.
As a result the guidelines do not recommend ICDs for these patients.
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For more than a year now the federal investigation of hospitals suspected of improperly implanting ICDs has been the subject of considerable rumor and speculation.
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Eighteen hundred Medtronic ICDs had already been recalled in April 2004.
The ICDS, launched in 1975, is the world's biggest early-childhood scheme.
It sponsors fellows, commissions research trials, which it pays doctors to run, and backs training sessions where doctors who don't already implant, say, Medtronic ICDs learn to do so.
The quality and reach of ICDS centres varies from state to state: the most impoverished states, with the highest rates of malnutrition, also have the lowest numbers of centres.
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are small battery-powered devices that can deliver a small electric shock to the heart in response to a life-threatening arrhythmia (when the heart starts beating rapidly and inefficiently).
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The company also said the Department of Justice will review how 95 of its hospitals billed Medicare for equipping patients with implantable cardio-defibrillators (ICDs), which are devices used to treat irregular heartbeat, or arrhytmia.
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Maisel said patients with pacemakers and ICDs are told that magnets can interfere with the function of their implants, but they may not be aware that headphones contain the magnetic substance neodymium, which helps with sound reproduction.
All that followed a warning to doctors on Feb. 10 that some 87, 000 lifesaving heart devices--mostly implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, which use batteries to shock an abnormally beating heart back into rhythm--were at risk of losing power without warning.
All that followed a warning to doctors on Feb. 10 that some 87, 000 life-saving heart devices-mostly implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, which use batteries to shock an abnormally beating heart back into rhythm-were at risk of losing power without warning.
However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has issued a "decision memo" stating that only people having certain serious heart conditions or cardiac histories are suitable candidates for ICDs.
According to Dr. Sana Al-Khatib, lead researcher of the study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ICDs often are recommended as a primary prevention tactic for patients who are at high risk for a cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmia, but who have not yet suffered from these symptoms.
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