As part of our continuing effort to fight for patients injured by defective heart devices, we posted information about the Boston Scientific Accolade Pacemaker recall.

The Boston Scientific Pacemaker Recall

This continues making rounds in online media. We hope it helps more patients learn of the risks, and for those already injured, become aware they have legal rights. A product liability lawyer can bring a claim if you suffered an injury from an Accolade Pacemaker. Our experienced medical device attorneys have the expertise to navigate the complex legal issues surely to arise. Contact us if a loved one died with an Accolade pacemaker.

Two Patients Died Using the Accolade Pacemaker per Online Reports

The risk that caused the recall is the battery failing. A recent online report explained it succinctly: “The company announced a recall for a subset of its Accolade devices because of an increased risk of permanently entering the safety mode. This has limited functionality, making the device unable to properly regulate the heart’s rhythm and rate. Most of the activations have occurred during follow-up office or hospital visits when the devices are interrogated for data.”

Most concerning is the Accolade recall occurred after two deaths. Id. “There have been two reported patient deaths in pacemaker dependent patients after the devices went into safety mode in an ambulatory outpatient medical setting. Boston Scientific said about 70% of safety mode events occurred during in-office interrogations from a Latitude programmer, and the remaining incidents took place in an ambulatory setting.”

At Least Hundreds of Accolade Devices at Issue

As we posted when we first blogged about the Accolade recall, it concerns a subset of Accolade pacemakers. The same report cited above noted

subset of the Accolade, Proponent, Essentio, and Altrua 2 Standard Life (SL) and Extended Life (EL) pacemakers, and the Visionist and Valitude cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) pacemakers. The number of impacted devices is about 203,000, while the tally of confirmed malfunctions is 697, Boston Scientific said in its recall notice

If You Suffered an Injury Using the Accolade Pacemaker or a Loved One Died Having Used One, Contact KBA

We anticipate more deaths attributed to these Accolade pacemakers. Anyone an Accolade implant injured should contact KBA at 855-KBA-LAWS (522-5297). The pacemaker lawyer is here to help.