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St Jude Medical CRMD: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator ATLAS + VR Tiered-therapy cardioverter/defibrillator, Model V-193

Recall number
Z-1336-2008
Recalling firm
St Jude Medical CRMD
Product
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator ATLAS + VR Tiered-therapy cardioverter/defibrillator, Model V-193
Status
Terminated
Initiated
2008-01-16
Posted
2008-08-19
Terminated
2012-04-03
Reason
A condition that could lead to a ventricular sensing anomaly in Epic and Atlas family of lmplantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) has been identified. A loss of ventricular sensing would prevent the ICD from being able to detect an arrhythmia. If an arrhythmia occurred and the device was unable to detect it, then a patient would not receive potentially life saving therapy.
Root cause
Software design
Action
A January 16, 2008, letter entitled, "Important Device Upgrade Information" was sent to physicians by FedEx. In the US, sales representatives will follow-up with the physician and will upgrade all programmers. For the rest of the world, it will be monitored by various St. Jude offices and local distributors with this information being fed back to St. Jude Medical CRMD in Sylmar. In addition, St. Jude Medical issued a press release on January 18, 2008 and information concerning this advisory can be found on St. Jude's website, www.sirn.com.
Quantity
not on file
Distribution
Nationwide and Internationally: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia,Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru. Poland, Portugal, Republic of Panama, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Lot, serial or model codes
all serial codes
510(k) numbers
not on file
PMA numbers
["P030054","P910023"]
Product code
not on file
Firm FEI
2017865
Firm city
Sylmar
Firm state
CA
Firm country
not on file

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Published
2026-09-28
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