BIO generators won't beep?

[Anonymous]

Why aren't BIOTRONIK cardiac rhythm devices equipped with audible tones? That's a decision that seems to go against all other manufacturers available on the market.

What's the story?

 

[Anonymous]

Is that study enrollment form? Oh cool.......who needs beeps

 

[Anonymous]

Why aren't BIOTRONIK cardiac rhythm devices equipped with audible tones? That's a decision that seems to go against all other manufacturers available on the market.

What's the story?

Beeps are only slightly less stupid than vibratory alerts. Absolutely unnecessary. Their home monitoring is reliable. Patients who are lost to follow up are grown ups, if they want to go out that way...let them.

 

[Anonymous]

Douche. Biotronik does not have superior Home Monitoring. They were first that's it. Because Europe had GSM cell phones before the USA. So what? Doesn't matter now. The only clinicians around here that have it, hate it. The alerts are helpful for patients at ERI. Yeah if I didn't have it in my bag I would say it's no big deal too. Go buy another implant.

 

[Anonymous]

They also say DF4 and Quad leads are no good as well

 

[Anonymous]

Beeps are only slightly less stupid than vibratory alerts. Absolutely unnecessary. Their home monitoring is reliable. Patients who are lost to follow up are grown ups, if they want to go out that way...let them.

BINGO

Also, this isn't breaking news....why was this topic started other than to bitch about a competitor's "non-functions"....go do some real work.

 

[Anonymous]

Douche. Biotronik does not have superior Home Monitoring. They were first that's it. Because Europe had GSM cell phones before the USA. So what? Doesn't matter now. The only clinicians around here that have it, hate it. The alerts are helpful for patients at ERI. Yeah if I didn't have it in my bag I would say it's no big deal too. Go buy another implant.

I don't work for BIO anymore. They do have superior home monitoring, but they don't have many other things necessary to thrive in the U.S. Market. I am objective about my opinions on algorithms. Vibes and beeps weren't necessary when I didn't have them and they still are not now that I do.

Patients at ERI are either nervous about "the battery just dying" or are blissfully ignorant of what's going on. Either way - these alerts do nothing to help either group, instead they lead to patients calling the clinic 8 months before ERI insisting they felt it vibrate or heard it beep, and they want to come in on a busy clinic day to have someone interrogate. That's when you turn that feature off.

You made the point: "Yeah if I didn't have it in my bag I would say it's no big deal too."

Well, by the same token, don't insist that because you do have beeps and vibes, that makes them important.

 

[Anonymous]

I don't work for BIO anymore. They do have superior home monitoring, but they don't have many other things necessary to thrive in the U.S. Market. I am objective about my opinions on algorithms. Vibes and beeps weren't necessary when I didn't have them and they still are not now that I do.

Patients at ERI are either nervous about "the battery just dying" or are blissfully ignorant of what's going on. Either way - these alerts do nothing to help either group, instead they lead to patients calling the clinic 8 months before ERI insisting they felt it vibrate or heard it beep, and they want to come in on a busy clinic day to have someone interrogate. That's when you turn that feature off.

You made the point: "Yeah if I didn't have it in my bag I would say it's no big deal too."

Well, by the same token, don't insist that because you do have beeps and vibes, that makes them important.

No one insisted they are important. I simply said they are useful. I didn't make this thread. All the patients I have are on remote monitoring. So if they say they heard a beep the clinician can check. I see you moved on from Bio. To where?

 

[Anonymous]

No one insisted they are important. I simply said they are useful. I didn't make this thread. All the patients I have are on remote monitoring. So if they say they heard a beep the clinician can check. I see you moved on from Bio. To where?

Where I am now is irrelevant, really...all the companies have warts...those represent job security for people like you and I.

I reread the the OP and I guess I see things different. The tone INSISTS a that BIO is cutting against the grain established by the rest of the industry by not having audible or vibratory alerts. Whether the insistence is on the decision or the alerts may be debatable, but my responses have been leveled at both.

 

[Anonymous]

Any tone in typing is in your head. Bio is missing a lot in their bag. Except check stubs.

 

[Anonymous]

Why aren't BIOTRONIK cardiac rhythm devices equipped with audible tones? That's a decision that seems to go against all other manufacturers available on the market.

What's the story?

The story is this...... YOU are a fucking moron. Of all the things to go after them over you pick this issue. You are fucking laughable. Nobody....... Nobody cares about audible tones... One way or the other they don't matter.

 

[Anonymous]

The story is this...... YOU are a fucking moron. Of all the things to go after them over you pick this issue. You are fucking laughable. Nobody....... Nobody cares about audible tones... One way or the other they don't matter.

Right. Go after them for something tangible. Like bribes and hiding failures.

 

[Anonymous]

So comical. No beeps needed as we haven't had any lead recalls that would require such an idiotic feature.

I don't work for BIO anymore. They do have superior home monitoring, but they don't have many other things necessary to thrive in the U.S. Market. I am objective about my opinions on algorithms. Vibes and beeps weren't necessary when I didn't have them and they still are not now that I do.

Patients at ERI are either nervous about "the battery just dying" or are blissfully ignorant of what's going on. Either way - these alerts do nothing to help either group, instead they lead to patients calling the clinic 8 months before ERI insisting they felt it vibrate or heard it beep, and they want to come in on a busy clinic day to have someone interrogate. That's when you turn that feature off.

You made the point: "Yeah if I didn't have it in my bag I would say it's no big deal too."

Well, by the same token, don't insist that because you do have beeps and vibes, that makes them important.

 

[Anonymous]

So comical. No beeps needed as we haven't had any lead recalls that would require such an idiotic feature.

No maybe not yet. But you've had more federal investigations and lawsuits for fraud and being part of it than the other companies combined in the last 8 years.