St. Jude Medical Recalls

Hazard: A configuration update needs to be done on TactiSys to appropriately recognize all TactiCath catheters.

Hazard: St. Jude Medical is performing a voluntary recall of batch 4671318, model number 401353 of the Response Fixed Curve DECA 6F 65cm CSL 2/8 Catheter. Specifically, the firm has identified that every device packaged within batch 4671318 contains the incorrect catheter (Supreme FC QUAD 5F catheter) within the packaging. To date, no serious injuries have occurred as a result of this issue

Hazard: St. Jude Medical is conducting a voluntary recall of SMJ Batch # 4641580 of the Fast-Cath Trio" Hemostasis Introducer, Catalog number 406308. The inner diameter of the 10F dilator is too small, such that the guidewire cannot advance through the device which may result in a procedural delay while another dilator of the desired size is obtained.

Hazard: The Directions for Use (DFU) manual contains information for devices that are not approved in the US. The correct US approved versions of the manuals were sent to the customers to replace the incorrect international manuals.

Hazard: The Directions for Use (DFU) manual contains information for devices that are not approved in the US. The correct US approved versions of the manuals were sent to the customers to replace the incorrect international manuals.

Hazard: St. Jude Medical Cardiovascular and Ablation Technologies Division is performing a voluntary notification regarding selected batched of Safire Duo Ablation Catheter MediGuide Enabled. These units have a cable connector configuration that is different than intended.

Hazard: St. Jude Medical Cardiovascular and Ablation Technologies Division is performing a voluntary notification regarding selected batches of Coolpath Duo Ablation Catheter MediGuide Enabled products and Safire Duo Ablation Catheter MediGuide Enabled. These units were inadvertently shipped with the incorrect version of the Instructions for Use (IFU).

Hazard: As part of St. Jude Medical's routine tracking and product monitoring, they have received a total of 214 reports, out of 34,617 Eon Mini IPGs, that lost the ability to communicate or recharge due to an inner battery weld issue resulting in loss of pain relief and subsequent explant. Explant surgery, as with any surgery, presents a risk to patient health. Adverse events associated with an unplanne

Hazard: There is issues of warmth or heating at the implant site during charging for the Eon Mini implantable pulse generators (IPGs). In the July 2012 letter St. Jude Medical informed customers that they would be implementing design improvements to the charger to address possible increased energy dissipation when the charger is misaligned with the IPG or the IPG is implanted too near the surface of the

Hazard: St. Jude Medical has informed your doctor that a number of cases have been reported in which discomfort associated with heating occurred at the device site while patients were using the Charging System to charge their spinal cord stimulator. In three cases, patients received a burn to the skin (one second-degree and two first-degree burns) at the implant site. As of June 30, 2012, St. Jude Medica

Hazard: St. Jude Medical has informed your doctor that a number of cases have been reported in which discomfort associated with heating occurred at the device site while patients were using the Charging System to charge their spinal cord stimulator. In three cases, patients received a burn to the skin (one second-degree and two first-degree burns) at the implant site. As of June 30, 2012, St. Jude Medica

Hazard: The distal end of the core wire of the TorqVue FX Delivery System could potentially fracture when exposed to a combination of certain cardiac anatomies and usage conditions.

Hazard: St. Jude Medical is recalling a single batch of Fast Cath Transseptal Guiding Introducers which was packaged as a 180 degree curve style introducer instead of a 90 degree curve style introducer as indicated on the labeling.