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The Back Pain
Dilemma in America
• The Institute of Medicine described chronic pain as “the
most under treated problem in America”
• By 2011 state legislatures required physician ownership
of outpatient surgical centers in an attempt to reduce
costs
• Interventional Pain Medicine became big business
without sufficient oversight, competing with other
practice modalities
• Compounding drug manufacturing grew as a result to
meet the demands of this new industry without sufficient
FDA oversight or State control
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Theorizing The Problem
An estimated 14,000 – 16,000 tainted
Steroid Injections (including Epidural
Steroid Injections) were administered
to 14,000 patients from the period of
May 26 through Sept 1, 2012.Meningitis Victim prior to her tainted ESI
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75 Facilities in 24 states purchased contaminated NECC
steroids & other products for redistribution to patients
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Methylprednisolone Acetate,
Betamethasone & Triamcinolone
• Are known causative agents for injury to the central
nervous system
• Are contraindicated for intrathecal use and other
non-indications due to known adverse events
• Intramuscular & intraarticular administration is
approved for manufacturers operating under
controlled practices, with clinical field trial data
• Produced under any condition, including custom
compounding, these steroids do not meet the safe
use criteria for epidural administration
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Characteristics of These Steroids
• When made “preservative free” by compounding
pharmacies, these steroids have a very short
shelf life and therefore are susceptible to poor
shipping, storage & handling practices
• Depresses immune functions in humans which
allows excessive growth of fungi and bacteria
• In non-muscle tissue, these effects are
exacerbated for extended periods
• Provides a perfect growing medium for fungi and
bacteria
• In the CNS, the body has no efficient way to
overcome these effects
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Percutaneous Procedures Performed
These percutaneous procedures
included injections into the
cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine,
and joints.
Types of injections* included
transforaminal, interlaminar,
caudal, trigger point, and
intrajoint procedures.
In some clinics, this amounted to
a rate of approximately 1
procedure performed every 15
minutes.
*NQF Procedure 0309
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Adverse Events
Increasingly, interventional treatments that rely on epidural
steroid injections (ESIs) for short term pain relief are associated
with reports of:
•Microbial Infections and Accidental Placement Errors (dural,
arterial & vascular punctures, chemical, bacterial & fungal
meningitis, arachnoiditis, epidural abscess, embolism,
infarction & stroke, paralysis, paresis, paresthesia)
•Reliance on off–label applications using unsafe supplies*,**
•Under training & lack of supervision of physicians
•Poor patient selection***
•Over prescribed***
•*All 3 drugs have been contraindicated for intrathecal use. The same severe adverse events are listed for epidural use for Methylprednisolone
Acetate (MPA) yet adequate warnings have not been issued for this application
•**FDA has not approved the use of any materials sourced from compounding manufacturers for epidural, intrathecal administration.
•***Dr. Manchikanti, Chairman of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians / Channel 5 Fox News “Nearly 64% of all ESI’s aren’t
necessary”.
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About these Materials
• These injections are administered with corticosteroids of various
types. None have been through the vigorous approval process by the
FDA for epidural administration and are not appropriate for any other
use except intra muscular/articular and/or lesional injection. The FDA
has contraindicated Methylprednisolone Acetate (MPA) for intrathecal
use due to its known neurotoxicity and association with the onset of
Arachnoiditis. However both the intrathecal and epidural routes of
administration list the same severe adverse events in the US
DataSheet but only the intrathecal route is cautioned. In fact the
manufacturers of Depo-Medrol/MPA notified the FDA in 1988 and in
1989 of severe adverse events reported with epidural steroid use
(Upjohn, letters to FDA, 1988 & 1989) and requested warning letters
of notification be sent to all heavy users along with a thorough label
change reflecting strict new warnings for epidural administration.
Their request was denied both times by the FDA.
• In 2011 the FDA granted the makers of Triamcinolone (Kenalog) to
add a black box warning: [NOT FOR EPIDURAL USE]
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Consumer Presentations
Consumers (16 – 90+ yrs) received from 1-15
injections for a variety of acute and chronic pain
conditions in the 12 months prior to the outbreak for:
Spondylolysthesis, Stenosis, Radiculopathy (NQF
0309), Complex Regional Dystrophy Syndrome,
Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Carpal Tunnel, Plantar
Fascitis, Degenerative Disc Disease, Sciatica, Failed
Back Syndrome, Trauma from car accidents, Neural
pain, CRPS, plus more unsubstantiated causalities.
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Poor Procedural Technique
Contamination
Wrong
Patient
selection
Long Term Disability, Pain & Death
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How Bad Can Things Go Wrong?
• Investigators wondered why fungus injected in
the spinal region should target the base of the
brain. “The observation of abundant fungi in the
perivascular tissues, but relatively low numbers of
fungi inside blood vessels, suggests migration of
fungus into, rather than out of, vessels at this
location. This supports the hypothesis that
Exserohilum migrates from the lumbar spine to
the brain through the cerebrospinal fluid with
subsequent vascular invasion, rather than
migration through the vasculature.”
– (Jana M. Ritter, DVM, CDC’s Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch)
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You Tell Us
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$78,447.00 Out Of Pocket costs
to date and now suffers from
Arachnoiditis and intractable
pain.
Meningitis Victim After Her Tainted ESI
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Associated Secondary Lifetime Disabilities
• Arachnoiditis
• Cauda Equina
Syndrome
• Permanent Neural
Impairment
• Stroke
• CRPS – Reflex
Sympathetic
Dystrophy
• CNS Disturbances
• Chronic Intractable
Pain
• Transplant & Dialysis
• PTSD
• Generalized Anxiety
• Liver & Kidney Failure
• Destabilization of
Musculoskeletal
Mechanisms
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Unmet, Unfunded Needs
• Rehabilitation
• Medical Monitoring
• Transplant Services
• Dialysis Services
• Mental Health
Services
• Speech Therapy
• Medical & Implantable
Devices
• Case Finding
• Assistive Technology
• Nursing Care
• Medications
• Home Health Services
• Legal Advocacy
• Integrated Pain
Management
• Coordinated Health
Care
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NECC Doses Distributed : Patient Reporting Rates of Fungal Infection*
NO Reports to
CDC despite
presence of
sick
consumers
0/1287 doses
delivered
2579
2753
659
457
445 2575
0/182
0/704
3125
2615
12880/80
986
320
1383
915
0/45
1265
2345
947
3024
4169
0/148
1309
200
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clinicians/casedef_multistate_outb
reak.htmlp://www.cdc.gov/hai/outb
reaks/meningitis-map-
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We Refuse to be Invisible
• Reach across the aisle - move compounding
safety legislation forward
• Find all those who have been exposed but
ignored so that they too can be finally diagnosed
& treated
• Create victims funding
• Make adverse event reporting mandatory for
ESI’s
• Stop authorizing public payment for unsafe
medical practices
• Ask FDA and HHS-CMMS to take action on
unsafe epidural steroid injection therapies
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Exposure Related Illness
If you or a loved one acquired ANY of these
symptoms since the steroid injection(s);
Meningitis, Stroke, Discitis, Phlegmon,
Paraspinal Infections, Bone or Joint Infection,
Pulmonary or Sinus Infections, Autoimmune
Disorders, Urticaria Vasculitis, Epidural Site
Infection, Intramuscular Abscesses, Skin
Rashes, Spleen Infections, Persistent
Headache, Hair Loss, Vision Disturbance, Eye
Infections, Death, contact your State Health
Agency at once then file a MedWatch Report
with the FDA:
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUp
dates/ucm354560.htm
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Fungal meningitis outbreak consumer voices speak 070713

Notas del editor

  1. Institute of Medicine (IOM) Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research Released: June 29, 2011 Type: Consensus Report Topics: Education , Public Health , Select Populations and Health Disparities Activity: Advancing Pain Research, Care, and Education Board: Board on Health Sciences Policy http://www.iom.edu/reports/2011/relieving-pain-in-america-a-blueprint-for-transforming-prevention-care-education-research.aspx http://www.asipp.org/index.html American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) http://www.spinalinjection.org/ International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS) http://www.iacprx.org/ International Association of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP)
  2. http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/outbreaks/meningitis.html Consumer picture released by permission
  3. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/FungalMeningitis/UCM325467.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/outbreaks/meningitis.html
  4. http://www.pfizer.ca/en/our_products/products/monograph/179 , p.8. http://www.adverseevents.com/ http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/HowToReport/ucm053087.htm http://drugs.com/triamcinolone/ All 3 medications are approved for topical, intramuscular, skin injections, and joint injections where there is a synovial space. Triamcinolone is specifically contraindicated for epidural and intrathecal use. Not one of the 3, produced under conditions of compounding manufacturing are label approved or field tested and clinically tried for these applications. None are FDA approved.
  5. http://www.pfizer.ca/en/our_products/products/monograph/179
  6. http://www.adverseevents.com *FDA has approved the uses suggested by registered manufacturers labels for these medications but has failed to adopt their language about ‘routes of administration.’ The manufacturers warn against the use of routes of administration other than those for which the drugs have been approved, which would include steroid injections into the epidural AND intrathecal space. By adopting language that prohibits intrathecal injection but omits epidural injection as a route of administration, some may infer that epidural injection falls into a class of ‘joint infections or soft tissue injections.’ Joint injections require a synovial space, not present in the spinal column. Soft tissue injections (intradermal, intramuscular) require a mediating blood supply. While joints are specifically named and targeted on the manufacturer’s labels, FDA’s omission has created a glaring gap in WARN language. (This gap is reflected in WebMD.com which embraces the epidural route of administration for these three steroids despite all three manufacturers precautions against injection into body systems other than intradermal, intramuscular, synovial joint space. Systemic and intravenous routes of administration are not recommended for use. All three manufacturers acknowledge the opportunity for extreme accidentality associated with placement of steroids into the intrathecal space, which can only occur through the route of epidural administration. FDA has failed to universally adopt precautionary language against the use of these medications for epidural steroid injection by any method- Triamcinolone contains the manufacturer’s precautions, yet Depo Medrol (Pfizer/Upjohn) and Betamethasone, do not. Pfizer specifically requested this change in 2002, but FDA failed to incorporate the language. **FDA is not responsible for, and has not approved the use of materials sourced from compounding manufacturers for: intradermal or intralesion injection, intramuscular injection, intraocular injection, epidural route of administration, intrathecal injection, or joint (synovial space) injections. ***FDA does not regulate the treatment decisions of physicians who use registered medications. Physician standards and practices are monitored by the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) Adverse events associated with these medications go largely unreported and unresponded to. There appears to be a large and glaring responsibility and communication gap between FDA’s AERS system, the safe use initiative authority, and CMMS standards, practices and payment authorities.
  7. https://www.facebook.com/groups/meningitisoutbreak/ Consumer voices
  8. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112884204/unraveling-largest-fungal-infection-outbreak-contaminated-steroid-injections-062613/ http://www.inquisitr.com/818361/cdc-investigates-largest-outbreak-of-fungal-infections-linked-to-injections/
  9. Consumer pictures released by permission
  10. http://www.cdc.gov/hai/outbreaks/clinicians/casedef_multistate_outbreak.html Probable Case. A person who received a preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) injection, with preservative-free MPA that definitely or likely came from one of the following three lots produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) [05212012@68, 06292012@26, 08102012@51] , and subsequently developed any of the following: Meningitis 1 of unknown etiology following epidural or paraspinal injection 2 after May 21, 2012; Posterior circulation stroke without a cardioembolic source and without documentation of a normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) profile, following epidural or paraspinal injection 2 after May 21, 2012; 3 Osteomyelitis, abscess or other infection (e.g., soft tissue infection) of unknown etiology, in the spinal or paraspinal structures at or near the site of injection following epidural or paraspinal injection2 after May 21, 2012; or Osteomyelitis or worsening inflammatory arthritis of a peripheral joint (e.g., knee, shoulder, or ankle) of unknown etiology diagnosed following joint injection after May 21, 2012. 1 Clinically diagnosed meningitis with one or more of the following symptoms: headache, fever, stiff neck, or photophobia, in addition to a CSF profile showing pleocytosis (>5 white blood cells, adjusting for presence of red blood cells by subtracting 1 white blood cell for every 500 red blood cells present) regardless of glucose or protein levels. 2 Paraspinal injections include, but are not limited to, spinal facet joint injection, sacroiliac joint injection, or spinal or paraspinal nerve root/ganglion block. 3 Patients in this category who do not have any documented CSF results should have a lumbar puncture performed if possible, using a different site than was used for the epidural injection when possible. http://www.cdc.gov/hai/outbreaks/meningitis-map-large.html Confirmed Case. A probable case with evidence (by culture, histopathology, or molecular assay) of a fungal pathogen associated with the clinical syndrome.