The officials said today that the faulty device would have to be either repaired or replaced and that an inspection tonight or early Saturday would determine what action to take.

The faulty decontaminating devices were fixed by using a different adsorbent material.

The idea of writing on her PDA had lost all its residual charm, in the absence of any guarantee that the faulty device wouldn't consign long hours of work to an electronic limbo.

The Medical Device Amendments of 1976 followed a U.S. Senate finding that faulty medical devices had caused 10,000 injuries, including 731 deaths.

Some 31,000 people have received the Sulzer implants, and about 2,800 of them have had corrective surgery to replace the faulty devices.

A faulty braking device was blamed, and Boeing issued retrofitting kits to 767 owners after the accident.

In the meantime, Paul Manuel, vice president of marketing for Mark IV Industries, said the company would gladly replace the faulty devices.

This is almost always caused by faulty devices.

A manufacturer allowed its product engineers to keep faulty cardiac devices on the market without considering the medical impact and failed to alert doctors and patients when the devices started to malfunction.

This reduces the risk of a faulty or mis-configured device generating excess network traffic.