The controversy over Guidant's implantable defibrillators

Joshua Oukrop, a Minnesota teenager with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a high risk of sudden death from ventricular fibrillation, received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) on October 4, 2001. Oukrop on March 14, 2005 collapsed and died as the device had short-circuited internally, while trying to deliver high-voltage therapy.