http://www.depuyhipreplacementlawsuit.com/ The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) faced criticism for dilly-dallying on the hip replacement recall issue. Thousands of men and women who were given artificial hip implants are pondering their fates as painful revision procedures appeared to be their only relief option, media reports say. In fact, a former gymnast and DePuy advocate filed a lawsuit against the company.
2. The Australian Therapeutic Goods
Administration (TGA) faced criticism for
dilly-dallying on the hip replacement recall
issue. Thousands of men and women who
were given artificial hip implants are
pondering their fates as painful revision
procedures appeared to be their only relief
option, media reports say. In fact, a former
gymnast and DePuy advocate filed a lawsuit
against the company.
3. Surgeons and consumers from different regions of
Australia slammed the TGA—the Australian
counterpart of the US Food and Drug
Administration—for dragging its foot on the
defective implants imported into the country by
different device makers, says the daily newspaper
The Age.
Many people who owned defective hip replacements
are reportedly considering to put themselves under
the knife in the run up to December because of the
high incidence of failures of the artificial devices they
are using.
4. The sufferers who embraced
artificial hips last year have
disclosed astounding rates of
failure of over 10%, which ran
twice as much as the normal
rate of 4%. They ran into
risks that were two times as
much as they could bear for
correction surgery, says the
paper. Those defective
implants were spread across
24 brands of artificial hip
prostheses, including the
DePuy ASR system of Johnson
& Johnson.
5. A private orthopedic organization supervised by the
federal government, the National Joint Replacement
Registry has kept tab about 2,700 elderly Australians who
are affected by defective hip replacements in 2010, says
the daily newspaper The Age.
Politicians in Australia have organized a task force to
evaluate the damning report of hip replacement failures
as the Senate prepares to disclose its findings on the
controversy.
The National Joint Replacement Registry found in 2006
that metal-on-metal hip prosthetics had failure rate of
50%. It described the incidence as “higher than normal,”
reports Australia’s leading daily newspaper Sydney
Morning Herald.
6. More than 5 in 10 of those implants
planned for revisions were among
products that were listed as trouble-
prone, says The Age, quoting numbers
from the National Joint Replacement
Registry.
The failure rate in hip replacements
was assessed at 4% through 5%. The
TGA reported that DePuy hip
prosthetics had a failure rate of 10%.
More or less 80,000 in replacement
hips and knees are surgically inserted
to Australians each year. The DePuy
hip replacement recall issue has
caused a national uproar among health
insurance service providers and
consumer lobbyists who sought
stringent monitoring.
7. As a metal-on-metal contraption, different hip
replacement system models can last through
normal wear and tear. However, there is a
corresponding risk arising from metal toxicity
that is likely to develop. Hip replacement
recall still affected Johnson & Johnson and two
of its products.
