Guidant Corp. has been recently exposed to have written a letter issuing a warning to doctors of the electrical malfunction in many Guidant defibrillators which could fail to supply the pulse needed to restore natural heartbeat. Instead of sending the important document, the debrillator company performed a routine “product update”. Guidant officals are documented as being concerned with causing “undue alarm” with the warning letter, thus the change in communications strategy. From a June 2005 meeting discussing product recalls, it is stated that Guidant executives expressed to regulators that there was a “low risk” of further problems from the electric flaw in defibrillators, despite two patient deaths.
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