15% Riata failure rate in 1000 patient Dutch study

Dutch cardiologists studied all 1029 patients in the Netherlands with Riata, found 15% cases of externalized conductors.

This hit the Dutch press this weekend:

In English: http://media.rtl.nl/media/actueel/rt...de_medical.pdf

In Dutch: http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel...pacemakers.xml

And?

Originally Posted by Anonymous

And?

And....Optim does a great job of hiding the bigger problem of shorting the can from delivering Rx. However, Optim is powerless against any outside-in abrasion by rubbing against valves or abandoned leads as recently proven on a failed Durata lead noted in MAUDE.

Originally Posted by Anonymous

Optim is powerless against any outside-in abrasion by rubbing against valves or abandoned leads

Are you implying that an Endotak Reliance or Sprint Quattro are immune?

Originally Posted by Anonymous

Are you implying that an Endotak Reliance or Sprint Quattro are immune?

Any lead by any company other than stj has a much higher survivabilty. Why? Because you have a severely flawed design plain and simple. You can't lump anyone in with your failures. Your company decided to use this design and now your patients are paying the price. Now your company will pay the price.

Originally Posted by Anonymous

Are you implying that an Endotak Reliance or Sprint Quattro are immune?

Are these companies claimiing 100% no issues at 5 years and killing pt's in the process? You're trying to compare apples to oranges.

Originally Posted by Anonymous

Are you implying that an Endotak Reliance or Sprint Quattro are immune?

Not immune...just managed better. Starks' tone and generally dismissive attitude brings scrutiny and indignation down on you guys.

Originally Posted by Anonymous

Not immune...just managed better. Starks' tone and generally dismissive attitude brings scrutiny and indignation down on you guys.

I'll agree with your second point whole heartedly. However, it wasn't that long ago that MDT was ignoring the Fidelis issue and blaming it on implanter technique. I'm not even going to go down memory lane with Guidant.

You would think that STJ would have learned an important lesson from watching their peers. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.

Originally Posted by Anonymous

I'll agree with your second point whole heartedly. However, it wasn't that long ago that MDT was ignoring the Fidelis issue and blaming it on implanter technique. I'm not even going to go down memory lane with Guidant.

You would think that STJ would have learned an important lesson from watching their peers. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.

MDT looks like Saints compared to STJ and the way they handled this epic disaster. Big difference between delivering inappropriate shocks versus no shocks at all. At least the MDT pt's are around to talk about and a MDT software improvement was made to identify failing leads early on.....what has STJ done to mitigate their lead failures......ZERO!!!!

Originally Posted by Anonymous

MDT looks like Saints compared to STJ and the way they handled this epic disaster. Big difference between delivering inappropriate shocks versus no shocks at all. At least the MDT pt's are around to talk about and a MDT software improvement was made to identify failing leads early on.....what has STJ done to mitigate their lead failures......ZERO!!!!

What failures?