Dr. Wes

On 29 January 2014, St. Jude Medical issued a "Dear Colleague" letter regarding their review of incident reports on older-model p...

From this morning's Wall Street Journal : Medtronic says federal rules prohibit giving Ms. Hubbard's data to anyone but her docto...

It came from a  case report published online before print in PACE from Dr. John Marenco of Tufts University in Springfield, Massachusetts:...

One of Many St. Jude Ad Trucks Seen at HRS 2012 Scientific Sessions The boxing match about the safety of St. Jude Medical's newer Du...

Today, a remarkable  tour de force essay on the St. Jude Medical Riata defibrillator lead recall controvery written by Edward J Schloss, MD...

I am always amazed at the different ways atrial fibrillation can present: sometimes with rapid heart rates, other times slow; sometimes it...

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune : Researchers in Ireland have discovered a possible problem with a heart defibrillator component made by S...

St. Jude Medical announced they are withdrawing a portion of their thinner 7Fr Riata defibrillator lead line despite earlier glowing compa...

61 microseconds. That's a tiny, tiny fraction of a second. 0.000061 second to be exact. Heck, to put it in perspective, light travels ...

Here's a copy of St. Jude's response to the WSJ article regarding their Riata leads. It provides a "sneak preview" into...

Area of a circle equals pi (3.14159...) times the radius squared. I remember that equation from geometry class. Now, all kinds of engineers...

Oh boy, the rumor mill's a churnin '. -Wes

SeekingAlpha reports an interesting tidbit regarding presumed "voltage variation" problem with some of St. Jude's pacemakers ...

Unfortunately, the tune is likely to be a dirge . Hundreds of patients who then had their Model 1861s (defibrillators) removed are now suing...

Some interesting results of an industry-sponsored expert conference on risk stratification of sudden death appeared in this month's Amer...

MedGadget does a nice review . Personally, I like all of the new features except the AF suppression algorithm - I've had to turn that o...

It didn't take long for the media to chew up this week's report on the high failure rate of old defibrillator leads published in Ci...

Today I received a letter from Stephen H. Mahle, Executive Vice President and President of Medtronic's Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management...

New procedures in medicine do not always stay – they must survive. I have been interested to see Procedural Darwinism at work in my daily pr...

When I was a young boy, I would lay in our pasture and stare up at the clouds, fascinated that they took different shapes as they moved acro...