If you were attending the recent FDA gathering of expert scientists, orthopaedic device developers, and surgeons who implant total hip replacements (THR), you would leave believing that the issue of early failures and metal toxicity from artificial hips was a new development. But a closer look at science from the […]
Category: Defective Medical Devices
Last month, Searcy Denney filed a lawsuit on behalf of a North Port hip implant and his wife against DePuy Orthopedics and Johnson & Johnson. This Southwest Florida resident was originally implanted with a DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant by Dr. Howard Saslow at Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, […]
If a medical device such as a metal-on-metal (MoM) hip or synthetic vaginal mesh go bad in a patient, the current system has no way of identifying and tracking that medical device. There is no national registry in the U.S. as there is in Britain and Australia, so the recipient of the device gone […]
On July 4, 2012, Stryker posted on its website a national recall of its Rejuvenate and ADM hip implant systems. It’s obvious that Stryker has received far too many reports of shockingly premature failures of its hip implant. The Rejuvenate has only been on the market since 2009 so enough […]
It is estimated that about 500,000 patients have received metal-on-metal hips, though firm numbers are hard to come by because the U.S. does not track medical device implants. In fact, that mystery is just one of many that surfaced on June 27 and 28, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) convened […]
(It Doesn’t Really Matter As Long As Patients and Surgeons Stop Buying the Defective Implants!) While it would certainly be nice to have a government that moved swiftly to recall defective drugs and medical devices from the market, we do not live in that world – at least in the […]
The Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit would like to thank our client, Howard Sadwin of Sarasota, Florida, for his poignant statements today before the Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration. The hearings were convened in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In addition […]
As a Stryker hip implant attorney, I have written previously about our experience with clients who had Stryker hip replacement problems. Most of these clients tell us about conversations with their doctors before surgery in which they were told the Rejuvenate hip was better for them due to their young […]
The Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit filed yet another individual lawsuit this week on behalf of a Florida DePuy ASR hip implant victim. This claim was filed on behalf of a Sebring resident who was implanted with bilateral recalled DePuy ASR implants in 2007 at Highlands Regional Medical Center. This plaintiff […]
It seems sort of nonsensical to blame the victim for his or her condition but that is what medical device maker Stryker appears to be doing in an April Field Safety Notice (FSN). In the United Kingdom, medical device manufacturers are required to report to the MHRA, their version of our […]
