VISIONIST CRT-P, EL (Model Number U225 and U226) and EL MRI (Model Number U228)
Medical device recall Z-0827-2025. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Jan 22, 2025.
- FDA Class I
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Jan 22, 2025. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class I FDA’s most serious class (needs attention)
- Ongoing its status, in FDA’s file
- Nationwide FDA’s word, and 2 states named
- 156,329 units (59,937 US, 96,792 OUS) in total how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class I, the most serious of FDA’s three classes.
“Dangerous or defective products that predictably could cause serious health problems or death. Examples include: food found to contain botulinum toxin, food with undeclared allergens, a label mix-up on a lifesaving drug, or a defective artificial heart valve.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class I is a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(1), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
A subset of devices from the ACCOLADE Family of Pacemakers and CRT-Ps, built before September 2018, have an increased potential to initiate Safety Mode during telemetry or other normal, higher-power operations due to latent high battery impedance.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
VISIONIST CRT-P, EL (Model Number U225 and U226) and EL MRI (Model Number U228)
156,329 units (59,937 US, 96,792 OUS) in total, in FDA’s words.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
U225 - UDI-DI: 00802526559433, 00802526577116, 00802526577048, 00802526578809, Serial Numbers: 100320 100321 100388 100543 100545 100712 100717 100720 100734 100747 100787 100800 100804 100806 100807 100810 100819 100827 100828 100832…
Every code shown here, 1,999 characters
U225 - UDI-DI: 00802526559433, 00802526577116, 00802526577048, 00802526578809, Serial Numbers: 100320 100321 100388 100543 100545 100712 100717 100720 100734 100747 100787 100800 100804 100806 100807 100810 100819 100827 100828 100832 100834 100835 100845 100849 100850 100851 100852 100853 100856 100858 100865 100874 100879 100880 100887 100888 100889 100890 100892 100894 100895 100900 100901 100902 100905 100906 100907 100908 100913 100915 100916 100917 100919 100921 100922 100923 100924 100926 100928 100929 100930 100931 100932 100933 100934 700015 700016 700035 700039 700040 700043 700044 700047 700048 700052 700056 700060 700063 700064 700067 700071 700072 700075 700077 700080 700082 700084 700085 700088 700089 700092 700094 700099 700100 700102 700103 700104 700105 700108 700109 700110 700115 700121 700125 700128 700132 700134 700145 700148 700153 700160 700165 700170 700180 700188 700189 700246 700249 700268 700271 700274 700278 700279 700281 700285 700288 700291 700292 700296 700297 700298 700301 700302 700303 700304 700305 700308 700309 700310 700311 700313 700314 700315 700323 700324 700327 700328 700329 700330 700331 700332 700333 700334 700336 700337 700338 700339 700341 700342 700343 700346 700348 700349 700350 700352 700353 700354 700355 700356 700357 700361 700362 700363 700364 700365 700367 700368 700370 700371 700372 700374 700375 700376 700377 700378 700379 700381 700382 700383 700384 700386 700387 700388 700391 700392 700393 700394 700396 700397 700398 700403 700405 700406 700407 700408 700409 700410 700411 700412 700414 700415 700416 700417 700418 700419 700420 700421 700422 700423 700424 700425 700427 700428 700429 700430 700431 700432 700434 700435 700437 700438 700439 700440 700441 700442 700443 700444 700445 700446 700447 700448 700449 700450 700451 700452 700453 700454 700455 700457 700458 700459 700461 700462 700463 700464 700465 700466 700467 700468 700469 700470 700471 700472 700473 700475 700476 700477 700478 700479 700480 700484 700491…
FDA’s list runs to 56,389 characters. The first part is shown; the rest is on FDA’s record.
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
US (Nationwide) including Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands and OUS (foreign) to countries of: Guam and Northern Mariana Islands.
The states and territories these words name
- Puerto Rico
- US Virgin Islands
What FDA means by nationwide
“The term “nationwide” is defined to mean the fifty states or a significant portion. Note that subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
openFDA, its enforcement report fields.
The words say it went outside the United States too.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
Is it still going on?
Ongoing, in FDA’s file.
“A recall which is currently in progress.”
openFDA, on “On-Going”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on Dec 12, 2024.
- FDA classified it on Jan 10, 2025.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Jan 22, 2025.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- Boston Scientific Corporation, of Saint Paul, MN.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Letter.
FDA, Device recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- FDA’s list of codes runs to 56,389 characters; the first part is shown here, and the rest is on FDA’s record.
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Device recall enforcement reports.
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