Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Leads Aren’t The Only Leads Shocking People
December 31st, 2007 amy
A recent article at lawyersandsettlements.com reported on yet another woman enduring dangerous and painful shocks to the heart from her Medtronic defibrillator, only this time it wasn’t the Sprint Fidelis leads doing the shocking. This woman’s defibrillator had the Sprint Quattro leads, which many doctors have resorted back to using after the recall of the Sprint Fidelis leads connected with five deaths and multiple other injuries. She was implanted with her defibrillator after being diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and was told that she was part of a clinical trial, although this ended up not being the case.
According to this woman, the shocking problems she experienced with her defibrillator using the Sprint Quattro leads were similar to those reported with the prone-to-fracture Fidelis leads. “You are totally paralyzed when it happens,” Sarah says. “You drop to the floor. I had too many shocks to count, but there were at least thirty or forty. It can happen at any time. Once I was next to a stereo system and I suffered a shock. Another time I was talking on a cell phone when I walked past another cell phone and I fell to the floor because of the shock.”
