Shots:

• FDA issues an alert to inform patients and health care practitioners about the unexpected drainage of Medtronic’s implantable pacemakers leading to a serious injury or death. The affected CRT-P includes Azure- Astra- Percepta- Serena and Solara models
• The alert is due to three events where device’s capacitor cracked- without any warning to the patient or health care provider. As of April 10- 2019- 131-889 have been sold in the US and doctors were unable to communicate with the device due to battery depletion resulting in loss of pacemaker function leading to dizziness- death- within a year of pacemaker implantation
• Medtronic's MyCareLink Monitor helps patients to monitor battery status and general functioning of their implanted pacemaker or CRT-P. the device is designed with ~7.5 and 15 years or 6 and 10 years before requiring battery replacement. The US FDA approves enhancement in the device to detect capacitor failures in new devices- reducing the risk of premature battery depletion

- Ref: FDA | Image: Medtronics