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Sentiva® Generator

Health Canada — Medical Devices · 2025-08-20 · CanadaType II
Issuing authority
Health Canada — Medical Devices
Published
2025-08-20
Country of alert
Canada
Alert level
Type II
Alert type
recall

What the authority reported

This is a follow up recall to manufacture ref # FA-NM-HOU-2024-00 issued in January 2025, regarding the reed switch component issue. Livanova received Health Canada approval on July 15, 2025 to distribute updated versions of the model 1000 Sentiva™ and model 1000-D Sentiva Duo™ VNS Therapy™ generators with a design change to resolve the issue and will remove and replace all affected model 1000 or 1000-D generators that remain in hospital inventory. Recall start date: August 11, 2025

What to do

Follow the instructions in the official notice — recall remedies (refund, repair, replacement, or disposal) are defined by the issuing authority and the responsible business, and they differ per recall. Do not rely on summaries, including this one.

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Record last checked against the registry on 2026-05-31.

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