Buying Guidant fixes that problem, because the company has traditionally been a big player in the market for pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD).

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All that followed a warning to doctors on Feb. 10 that some 87, 000 lifesaving heart devices--mostly implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, which use batteries to shock an abnormally beating heart back into rhythm--were at risk of losing power without warning.

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All that followed a warning to doctors on Feb. 10 that some 87, 000 life-saving heart devices-mostly implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, which use batteries to shock an abnormally beating heart back into rhythm-were at risk of losing power without warning.

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Researchers looked at 62 patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, devices that monitor heart rhythms and emit painful shocks in response to dangerous rhythms.

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Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are small battery-powered devices that can deliver a small electric shock to the heart in response to a life-threatening arrhythmia (when the heart starts beating rapidly and inefficiently).

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