On February 7, 2022, Exactech, a medical device company headquartered in Florida, expanded a prior recall of knee and ankle replacement devices. This updated recall now affects roughly 150,000 devices distributed in the U.S. from 2004 through 2022. In addition, Exactech also recently recalled...
The Exactech recall started in August 2021, when the company announced an issue with the packaging of their ankle and knee replacement devices. The vacuum bags containing the devices lacked a second barrier layer with ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH), which helps to provide oxygen resistance. Over ...
These devices were linked to multiple patient deaths and were recalled in 2007 and 2011, respectively, after implantation in hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide.7,17 Similarly, a total knee replacement system (New Jersey LCS [DePuy]) underwent 135 postmarket changes before it was ...
Johnson & Johnson has been under siege of late, with a spate of recalls from the DePuy hip, to artificial knee joints, to medication such asMotrin. The company has had to shut down one of its manufacturing facilities due to a departure from GMP (good manufacturing practices), and there h...
helmets, knee pads, elbow pads and wrist guards—but nothing that would presumably protect you in a meaningful way from an explosion or fire. Maybe a hazmat suit? Maaaybe not. It does, however, paint a pretty laughable picture—suited up like Michelin man, wobbling uncontrollably as you ...