02

Aug

2022

Recall- Software Error Battery Longevity

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Company: St. Jude Medical, Cardiac Rhythm Management Division
Date of Enforcement Report: 8/2/2022
Class II

PRODUCT

Merlin PCS 3650 programmer Model 3330 software

Recall Number:

Z-1495-2022

REASON

There is a potential for programmer software (Merlin PCS) and remote monitoring software application (Merlin.net) to display overestimated predicted battery longevity for certain pacemakers.

RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER

St. Jude Medical, Cardiac Rhythm Management Division

VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE

29,996 programs

DISTRIBUTION

US: AK AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VI VT WA WI WV WY , Guam OUS: ALBANIA ALGERIA ANGOLA Argentina ARMENIA Australia AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BAHRAIN Bangladesh BELGIUM BENIN BOLIVIA BOSNIA-HERZ. BRAZIL BULGARIA Burnei Cambodia CAMEROON Canada Chile China Colombia COTE D’IVOIRE CUBA CYPRUS CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK DOMINICAN REP. ECUADOR EGYPT EL SALVADOR ESTONIA ETHIOPIA FAROE ISLANDS FINLAND FRANCE GEORGIA GERMANY GREECE GREENLAND GUATEMALA Hong Kong HUNGARY ICELAND India Indonesia IRELAND ISRAEL ITALY JORDAN KAZAKHSTAN KOSOVO KUWAIT KYRGYZSTAN LATVIA LEBANON LIBYA LIECHTENSTEIN LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG MACEDONIA Malaysia MALTA MAURITIUS Mexico MONGOLIA MONTENEGRO MOROCCO Myanmar Nepal NETHERLANDS New Zealand NORWAY OMAN Pakistan PALESTINE PANAMA PARAGUAY PERU Philippines POLAND PORTUGAL QATAR ROMANIA RUSSIAN FED. SAUDI ARABIA SENEGAL Singapore SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA South Korea SPAIN Srilanka SUDAN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND Taiwan Thailand TRINIDAD TUNISIA TURKEY UKRAINE United Arab Emirates UNITED KINGDOM UZBEKISTAN VENEZUELA Vietnam VIRGIN ISLAND YEMEN ZAMBIA

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Allison joined SoftwareCPR in 2022, bringing along over ten years of passion for building teamwork and growth in organizations. This is established in part by the greatest University the South has to offer- Mississippi State.

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