November 15th, 2007 amy
Baxter’s COLLEAGUE infusion pumps may be defective under certain conditions, the company warns. The company, per a letter issued to its Canadian customers, has received at least three reports of the infusion pumps malfunctioning and not infusing. The company is working on a software solution to remedy the problem. Meanwhile, Baxter is warning not to […]
November 14th, 2007 amy
A group of Atlanta women are suing the makers of the Mentor ObTape Vaginal Sling, a surgically implanted device which is supposed to help women with bladder incontinence, because of the pain and repeat surgeries they endured because of this defective medical device. Rather than helping these women avoid embarrassing bladder leaks, the Mentor ObTape […]
November 13th, 2007 amy
St. Jude Riata Defibrillator Lead Wires may detach and perforate the heart, says more than one major medical publication. Although it’s not entirely unusual for defibrillator leads to malfunction, these detachments and perforations are happening more than expected with the St. Jude Riata Defibrillator Leads. According to PACE, a publication for specialists who implant pacemakers […]
November 12th, 2007 amy
Heart stents used to open clogged arteries in patients with chronic chest pains didn’t help people live longer, per a recent study headed by William Weintraub, professor of medicine at Christiana Care Health Services. Treatment via heart stents, which costs $10,000 per person, “has not been shown to reduce the incidence of death or heart […]
November 9th, 2007 amy
For people who have had shoulder surgeries using intra-articular pain pumps, an extremely painful and life-altering condition called Postarthroscopic Glenohumeral Chondrolysis (PAGCL) may develop. After the surgical procedure, PAGGL can cause the shoulder cartilage to deteriorate. While the point of the pain pump is to alleviate pain, those who develop the condition may end up […]
November 8th, 2007 amy
Welch Allyn has announced another Class I defibrillator recall, this time for 1,794 AED10 Automatic External Defibrillators. These defibrillators, used by medical professionals to shock the heart of a cardiac arrest patient back into rhythm, may malfunction and fail to resuscitate the patent.
Per the company’s press release, they have observed 49 failures in the manufacture […]
November 7th, 2007 amy
Implantable heart defibrillators took a beating Tuesday when researchers reported poor results of two studies, which were funded by St. Jude Medical, at the annual conference of the American Heart Association. The implantable defibrillator market has declined in the past few years, but these studies didn’t produce the good news the market needs.
Both studies focused […]
November 7th, 2007 amy
Bausch & Lomb, Inc. and Walgreen Co. are being sued by a Chicago woman who claims using the recalled contact lens solution ReNu with MoistureLoc caused an eye infection requiring medical treatment.
The plaintiff in this St. Clair County Circuit Court case claims she went through antibiotic and steroid treatment as a result of using this […]
November 5th, 2007 amy
Defective defibrillators remain a hot topic as lawsuits are filed and big payouts ordered. Boston Scientific Corp.’s Guidant unit has agreed to pay a minimum of $240 million to settle 8,000 consolidated claims currently in litigation in Minnesota District Court. This defibrillator settlement amount is $45 million more than originally announced. Boston […]
November 2nd, 2007 amy
A 77 year old West Virginian widow has filed suit against the physician who implanted a recalled St. Jude pacemaker into her husband causing his death. Her husband died when the pacemaker failed. The widow claims the physician and hospital are both negligent, since they should have known the pacemaker had been recalled before it […]
