If you have had problems with an Exactech ankle, knee, hip or shoulder implant, you are not alone. At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Exactech has recalled hundreds of thousands of defective ankle, knee, hip and shoulder implant devices over the past few years. While […]

Exactech has recalled hundreds of thousands of implantable ankle, knee, hip and shoulder replacement devices over the past few years. If you or a loved one received an Exactech implant in 2004 or later, it will be important for you to learn about the ongoing recalls and ensure that you […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Safety Communication advising healthcare providers to stop implanting Equinoxe Shoulder System joint replacement devices manufactured by Exactech. The Safety Communication, which the FDA published on January 16, 2024, identifies issues with Exactech’s packaging that can cause oxidation leading to premature […]

Exactech has recalled hundreds of thousands of its implantable medical devices. This includes ankle, hip, knee and shoulder implants that the company shipped to doctors’ offices and hospitals across the country. These recalls present substantial risks for patients, with complications necessitating revision surgery in many cases. Understanding the Patient Safety […]

Exactech is a medical device company that manufactures implantable joint replacements. It is also a company that has faced numerous lawsuits related to its products in recent years. In many cases, Exactech has acknowledged the safety issues with its own medical devices—issuing recalls affecting hundreds of thousands of patients nationwide […]

Patients often worry that medical providers have missed and failed to treat a dangerous medical condition. And they have good cause for fear because medical malpractice of this type is far too common and causes unnecessary suffering and death on a regular basis in Florida. However, patients also need to […]

The next hearing session of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) is scheduled for September 29, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri.  Five matters are set for oral argument to consider motions to transfer each to one centralized district for coordinated pretrial proceedings, covering a variety of hot […]

When you schedule a replacement surgery, you expect everything to go according to plan. You expect your anesthesiologist and surgeon to do their jobs professionally, and you expect to receive the postoperative care you need to recover as quickly as possible. But, you probably don’t give much thought to the […]

In this fifth and final installment of our series on defective medical device issues, we are discussing the lack of a national device registry in the United States. Despite calls from various advocacy groups and some preliminary efforts at the federal level, the U.S. still lacks a central repository for […]

So far, our series discussing issues associated with defective implantable medical devices has focused on specific deficiencies in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval and safety monitoring systems. First, we discussed the inherent conflicts of the 510k clearance process.  Then, we discussed the limited recall requirements for implantable […]