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HEARTWARE VENTRICULAR ASSIST SYSTEM DRIVELINE Adverse Events: FDA MAUDE Data

MEDTRONIC, INC. · Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)

Total Reports

2,347

Reports (30d)

11

Active Signals

1

Open Recalls

69

Monthly Report Volume

Event Type Breakdown

What the reports describe · Claripulse analysis

Most commonly reported problems

1

Driveline Sheath Damage Recurrent

normal, vad, device vad, cable, remains

13

reports

2

Power Cable Damage Causing Alarms

battery, vad, batteries, device vad, low

1

reports

Problem groupings are generated by Claripulse from report narrative text. They summarize what reporters wrote, not adjudicated root cause.

Detection

Active safety signals

Increasing trendmedium

Regulatory

FDA recalls for this device

Class II

Oct 31, 2023 · Open, Classified

Updates to the HVAD system instructions for use (IFU) and patient manual (PM) will be provided. These updates will clarify (1) the conditions under which an HVAD [Controller Fault] alarm may sound and the recommended troubleshooting actions and (2) instructions relating to the useful life of the HVAD system components

Class II

Oct 31, 2023 · Open, Classified

Updates to the HVAD system instructions for use (IFU) and patient manual (PM) will be provided. These updates will clarify (1) the conditions under which an HVAD [Controller Fault] alarm may sound and the recommended troubleshooting actions and (2) instructions relating to the useful life of the HVAD system components

Class II

Oct 31, 2023 · Open, Classified

Updates to the HVAD system instructions for use (IFU) and patient manual (PM) will be provided. These updates will clarify (1) the conditions under which an HVAD [Controller Fault] alarm may sound and the recommended troubleshooting actions and (2) instructions relating to the useful life of the HVAD system components

Class II

Oct 31, 2023 · Open, Classified

Updates to the HVAD system instructions for use (IFU) and patient manual (PM) will be provided. These updates will clarify (1) the conditions under which an HVAD [Controller Fault] alarm may sound and the recommended troubleshooting actions and (2) instructions relating to the useful life of the HVAD system components

Class II

Oct 31, 2023 · Open, Classified

Updates to the HVAD system instructions for use (IFU) and patient manual (PM) will be provided. These updates will clarify (1) the conditions under which an HVAD [Controller Fault] alarm may sound and the recommended troubleshooting actions and (2) instructions relating to the useful life of the HVAD system components

Class II

Oct 31, 2023 · Open, Classified

Updates to the HVAD system instructions for use (IFU) and patient manual (PM) will be provided. These updates will clarify (1) the conditions under which an HVAD [Controller Fault] alarm may sound and the recommended troubleshooting actions and (2) instructions relating to the useful life of the HVAD system components

Evidence

Related research

Qu Y, et al. · Journal of clinical medicine · 2021

Driveline infections in left ventricular assist devices—Incidence, epidemiology, and staging proposal

Elisabeth Dettbarn, et al. · Artificial Organs · 2023

Comparing Short-Term Outcome after Implantation of the HeartWare® HVAD® and the Abbott® HeartMate 3®

René Schramm, et al. · ESC Heart Failure · 2020

Retrospective 1-year outcome follow-up in 200 patients supported with HeartMate 3 and HeartWare left ventricular assist devices in a single centre

Marcus Mueller, et al. · European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery · 2020

Rates and types of infections in left ventricular assist device recipients: A scoping review

Michael Pienta, et al. · JTCVS Open · 2021

Citations indexed from PubMed.

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Understanding this data

What FDA MAUDE data does and does not tell you

How these reports are filed, why raw counts mislead, and the limits to know before drawing conclusions.

How a safety signal is detected

What the "Active Signals" count above means and the methods that separate a real signal from noise.

Disclaimer: This system analyzes publicly available FDA MAUDE data. It does NOT provide medical advice. MAUDE data is de-identified. Do not attempt re-identification. Report counts may differ from the FDA's MAUDE search due to processing cadence and deduplication. Data is updated weekly.