{"id":8566,"date":"2015-09-15T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/thoratec-issues-voluntary-device-correction\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T23:44:00","slug":"thoratec-issues-voluntary-device-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/thoratec-issues-voluntary-device-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoratec Issues Voluntary Device Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thoratec Corporation (NASDAQ: THOR) today issued a voluntary Urgent Medical Device Correction Letter to all hospitals who have patients supported with the HeartMate II LVAS reminding them to monitor the expiration date of the backup battery contained within the HeartMate II \u201cPocket\u201d System Controller, as specified in the product Instructions for Use. This backup battery has a 36 month expiration date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoratec Corporation (NASDAQ: THOR) today issued a voluntary Urgent Medical Device Correction Letter to all hospitals who have patients supported with the HeartMate II LVAS reminding them to monitor the expiration date of the backup battery contained within the HeartMate II \u201cPocket\u201d System Controller, as specified in the product Instructions for Use. This backup battery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/thoratec-issues-voluntary-device-correction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoratec Issues Voluntary Device Correction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drug-recalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}