St. Jude Medical Warns About Surgery With Older Pacemakers

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It seems that St. Jude Medical has a bit of a problem with some of its older pacemakers. On January 29, the company issued a “Dear Colleague” letter advising physicians that some of their older pacemaker models (Affinity, Entity, Frontier, Identity, Integrity, Sustain, Victory, and Zephyr) can drop their output voltage during surgical electrocautery procedures, which involve electrically generated heat. This drop of the output voltage can mean that the pacemaker effectively ceases to function.

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