Back on 2/12/10 I posted an alert from the Food and Drug Administration about a recall of automatic defibrillators by Cardiac Science Corporation.

Today the FDA issued a warning once again concerning Cardiac Science defibrillators which fail to deliver a shock during resuscitation attempts and several other problems in their operation. Cardiac Science recalled various Powerheart and CardioVive models back in November 2009 but the FDA has now announced similar problems with various Nihon Kohden and GE Healthcare models prompting this warning.

Cardiac Science has updated some software associated with some of the defibrillators and plans others but the FDA says that these updates don’t solve all of the problems. bjmdjd

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automatic defibrillator · CardioVive · Food and Drug Administration · GE Healthcare · Nihon Kohden · Powerheart