Medical device "cooked" a man's heart...

Edwards Lifesciences is on the hook with the current lawsuit...I can't even imagine what the man experienced...we put our trust in new technology and yet stories of this sort keep appearing...a product overheating inside the human body is just down right scary...the monitor turned off the fail-safe devices and enabled the catheter to reach temperatures of up to 500 degrees...hopefully this has been corrected!...BD

A California manufacturer of medical devices "chose to cross their fingers and roll the dice," gambling with people's lives, a Snohomish County Superior Court judge said Wednesday.
Judge Linda Krese said it amounted to "reckless disregard for the safety of others" when Edwards Lifesciences Inc. failed to warn users about dangers of a machine that malfunctioned and literally cooked a man's live heart in 2004.
The jury ruled that Edwards, of Irvine, Calif., bears almost all the blame for what happened to Singh, 54, because it didn't tell doctors about flaws in the device that could cause overheating under certain circumstances. After the surgery, doctors couldn't restart Singh's burned heart. Singh was kept alive with blood-pumping machines and received a heart transplant at University of Washington Medical Center 11 weeks later.