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Editor: Marc Jay Bern
Profession: Defective Medical Device Lawyer

Category: Medtronic News

Medtronic recently announced that all Vision 3D implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) are compatible with the Medtronic CareLink Network.

Over 250,000 patients at 2,400 clinics across 20 countries are currently monitored remotely via the Medtronic CareLink Network, which allows doctors to perform a complete health analysis of all medical-device and patient-specific cardiac data stored within implantable devices.

All current Medtronic ICDs, CRT-Ds and pacemakers are compatible with the new network that has over 1 million patient data transmissions since inception.

"Medtronic offers the breadth of pacemaker and ICD therapies, deep and varied product lines, and geographic reach of the CareLink Network for remotely monitoring patients with Medtronic cardiac devices," said Oern Stuge, president of Europe and Central Asia for Medtronic.

"With the addition of Vision 3D devices on the Network, European physicians and patients can have increased confidence in the effectiveness of therapy delivery as well as wireless alerting capabilities for conditions such as worsening heart failure via CareAlert notifications."