Medical Devices & Implants

• Patients Suffering After Using Shoulder Pain Pumps

  Jamie Sheller | April 23, 2009 2:55 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Pain pumps are used after surger to help manage post-surgical pain. Recently, pain pumps used in the shoulders following arthroscopic surgery have been linked to postarthroscopic glenohumeral...

• Safety Alert for Zoll Defibrillators

  Jamie Sheller | April 07, 2009 2:44 PM | 1 CommentPhiladelphia, PA

  Sudden heart stoppage, known as cardiac arrest, affects between 250,000 and 450,000 Americans each year. Defibrillators are used to try and restore normal heart rhythm by delivering a shock....

• FDA Gets Scolded By Public Citizen Over Baxter Pumps

  Jamie Sheller | March 18, 2009 12:22 PM | 1 CommentPhiladelphia, PA

  The FDA has recently come under fire from a consumer watchdog group. Public Citizen expressed anger at the FDA for its delay in evaluating the latest problems with Baxter International's infusion...

• Product Letter From Baxter Receives FDA Severe Urgency Level

  Jamie Sheller | March 18, 2009 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  In January Baxter International issued a warning letter to customers regarding its Colleague Volumetric Infusion pumps. The pumps are used to deliver intravenous fluids and medicine to patients in...

• PAGCL Caused By Shoulder Pain Pumps

  Jamie Sheller | February 25, 2009 12:57 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Intra-articular pain pumps deliver pain medicine directly into surgical sites, such as shoulders. Medications such as lidocaine and bupivacaine are delivered via an implanted disposable device....

• Federal Probe Into Stryker Leads To Guilty Pleas

  Jamie Sheller | February 23, 2009 12:51 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Two former sales representatives of Stryker Corp. have pleaded guilty in a Justice Department inquiry into the company. In 2008, the U.S. Attorneys office in Boston began an inquiry into Stryker, a...

• Class I Recall of Eye Surgery Product Healon D

  Jamie Sheller | January 06, 2009 7:07 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  The FDA has recalled lot number UD30654 of Healon D, which is an ophthalmic viscosurgical device (OVD). Healon D is manufactured by Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO) of Santa Ana, California....

• Recall of HeartMate II Implantable Pump

  Jamie Sheller | October 28, 2008 12:59 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Cardiac device maker, Thoratec Corp., had recalled certain batches of its implanted heart pump, the HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist System. According to Thoratec, five people have died while...

• Probe Into Financial Ties Between Manufacturers and Researchers

  Jamie Sheller | October 16, 2008 7:59 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Two U.S. Senators want to probe the relationship between the medical device industry and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. The inquiry seeks to determine the financial ties between some...

• CT Scans May Cause Medical Device Malfunction

  Jamie Sheller | September 14, 2008 2:08 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  The FDA recently alerted doctors about the possibility of computed tomography or CT scans causing malfunctions in some electronic medical devices. There have been some adverse events reported to the...