User's Manual

US-ENGLISH – 59
17.4. EXPLANTATION
The defibrillator should be explanted in the following cases:
 The Elective Replacement Indicator (ERI) point is reached
 Confirmed malfunction
 Burial of the patient (for environmental reasons, the local
regulation may require the explantation of the devices
containing a battery supply)
 Cremation of the patient (the defibrillator may explode if
placed in an incinerator)
The explanted defibrillator should not be reused in another patient.
All explanted defibrillators should be returned to Sorin CRM, carefully
cleaned of all traces of contamination. This may be done by
immersing them in an aqueous sodium hypochlorite containing at
least 1% chlorine, followed by rinsing copiously with water.
The defibrillator should be protected against mechanical impact and
the temperature variations that may occur during shipping.
Before explantation, it is advisable to:
 print out all programmed parameters, statistics and Holter
function report,
 save Patient data on floppy disk or hard disk,
 disable shock therapies (VT and VF) to avoid any risk of
untimely shock.