You're saying that a device manufacturer, like this Medtronic defibrillator, when it went through the whole premarket approval and everything, and it was approved, later on they made a change to it, but it didn't have to go back and be approved, and they did no human trials?
Harkin questions the approval process for device modifications without human trials.
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