Posts tagged stryker

• UK Tells Surgeons: Stop Using Stryker/ J&J Metal Hips

  Cal Warriner | April 06, 2012 1:26 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Hip replacement patients and their surgeons in the U.S. need to be made aware of a government warning out of the U.K. about a metal-on-metal hip (MoM) replacement combination with a high failure...

• One for the Good Guys -- Bausch v Stryker

  Cal Warriner | November 01, 2011 11:35 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  For consumers of medical devices, yesterday’s United States Supreme Court decision not to hear a discretionary appeal from the Seventh Circuit is a big win. What ordinary consumers of drugs...

• Evidence in Pain Pump Cases Supports Jury Verdicts

  John Hopkins | April 05, 2010 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. (Mahatma Ghandi) So has gone the trials involving pain pump cases. In these...

• FDA Warns About Pain Pumps -- Manufacturers Knew

  John Hopkins | November 16, 2009 9:14 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Sometimes law and science do not make close bed fellows; particularly where one or the other is trying to understand their respective meaning. The FDA has come forward to warn about continuous...

• The Long Journey to the Aftermath of Pain Pump Induced Shoulder Joint Chondrolysis

  Armand Rossetti | October 06, 2008 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Several companies, including Stryker, BREG, Inc., I-Flowand DJO, Inc. have manufactured and distributed high volume pain pumps. During surgery and for up to three days post, surgeons may use a...

• 2008 Stanford Study Proves Injectable Pain Medicine from Pain Pumps Kill Tissue

  Cal Warriner | September 02, 2008 6:10 PM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A very recent laboratory study conducted at Stanford University heavily suggests that common anesthetics used in pain pumps cause significant tissue destruction. The study, prompted by poor outcomes...

• Implantable Pain Pumps Causing Devastating Shoulder Injury

  Cal Warriner | August 28, 2008 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Recent studies have shown that intra-articular, implantable pain pumps are causing severe, disabling injury to patients. Most frequently these pumps are implanted after arthroscopic shoulder surgery...