Zimmer Inc., headquartered in Warsaw Indiana, specializes in musculoskeletal health care. It is one of the largest medical company in the world, with 8500 employees serving all over the globe for more than 80 years. Zimmer’s 2016 sales were approximately $4.5 billion. Zimmer Femoral Components Include stem, neck and femoral head. They are fixed with […]
Stryker Accolade hip implants
Stryker Accolade implant revision patients report high blood metal levels with LFIT cobalt femoral heads. Mismatched implant metals can cause metallosis and dislocations requiring painful revision surgery. Over 500,000 patients in the United Stated were implanted with artificial “metal-on-metal” hip implants, also known as all-metal hips, during hip replacement surgery. There was a rash of […]
Bard ALIGN transvaginal mesh for stress urinary incontinence
New Jersey based C. R. Bard is a worldwide creator and distributor of medical products. Founded in 1907 by Charles R. Bard, the company specializes in creating surgical, vascular, oncology, and urology devices. The Align Urethral Support System is one of Bard Medicals various products offered to treat stress urinary incontinence, or SUI, in […]
Transvaginal Mesh
When a patient with a ventral hernia (the swelling of tissues, intestines, or organs that works its way through an opening, injury, or surgical incision in a patient’s abdominal wall) undergoes hernia repair surgery, one common method of repair is to place a bioabsorbable mesh hernia patch over that opening. This causes the patient’s natural […]
Nursing Home Abuse
Our aged in society deserve respect and proper care at nursing hoes. In Illinois there a a specific statute, known as the Illinois Nursing Home Act, that helps provide for a financial recovery if negligent care causes injury or death to the nursing home resident. Under that Act, owners and operators of nursing home facilities […]