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The Bard PowerPort catheter has been linked to many serious injury complications and side effects. Severe failure cases have led to permanent injuries or death. These are the common complications associated with the Bard PowerPort catheter including:

Bard PowerPort

Bard PowerPort catheter is linked to fractures, blood clots, embolism, deep vein thrombosis and other serious injuries. Injured by Bard PowerPort? Call Dr. Shezad Malik at 214-390-3189.

Catheter Migration. The catheter may move from its intended position.

Bard PowerPort Injury lawsuits are being filed against Bard claiming that the implantable intravenous devices have serious design defects that cause the ports to break apart and migrate, leading to catastrophic life-threatening injuries. The FDA approved the first Bard PowerPort device in 2000.

Bard PowerPort Injury

Bard PowerPort Injury is linked to dangerous side effects including blood clots, fractures and bleeding. Injured? Call Dr. Shezad Malik at 214-390-3189

A woman in Chicago recently filed a Bard PowerPort Injury lawsuit. The woman had a PowerPort implanted in her neck for breast cancer chemotherapy. In just nine short months, the PowerPort fragmented, and device pieces traveled to her heart and veins. She had to undergo several painful surgeries to remove the fragments from her heart and other areas. Her lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Federal Court, Northern District of Chicago.

What is the Bard PowerPort device?

The Bard PowerPort is a group of port catheter devices that are implanted under the skin, so an intravenous tube known as a catheter can inject medication into the bloodstream.

The Bard PowerPort is a specific brand and type of implantable port device, which is commonly used in medical treatments requiring frequent access to the venous system for the delivery of medications, chemotherapy, blood products, and for the taking of blood samples. The Bard PowerPort is manufactured by C.R. Bard, Inc. (now part of Becton, Dickinson and Company). Continue reading

Bard IVC Filter Injuries can be avoided and I’ll detail how. C.R. Bard and Cook are the two major manufacturers of retrievable Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filters. Retrievable Bard and Cook Inferior Vena Cava  filters have come under fire over the past 6 years as more information has come to light over the increased risk with these defective medical devices.

Bard IVC Filter Lawsuits

Bard IVC Filter injury lawsuits are increasing across the United States.

Case in point, Amber Nordin, from South Dakota earlier this year filed a personal injury and defective product liability lawsuit against C.R. Bard, because of the Bard company’s Eclipse blood clot filters broke apart and embedded inside her internal organs.

After a hard fought, protracted and bitter fight that has consumed the last 5 years, the Bard Avaulta transvaginal mesh litigation is finally heading for a global settlement. U.S. District Judge, John Goodwin, who presiding over all federal vaginal mesh lawsuits has appointed a Special Master to forge settlement talks between C.R. Bard and women who allege the mesh and bladder sling company’s products left them with painful and serious injuries.

75,000 Women Cannot Be Wrong

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued two proposed orders to address the health risks associated with surgical mesh used for transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse (POP). If finalized, the orders would reclassify surgical mesh for transvaginal POP from a moderate-risk device (class II) to a high-risk device (class III) and require manufacturers to submit a premarket approval (PMA) application for the agency to evaluate safety and effectiveness.

What is Pelvic Organ Prolapse?

As a Texas Vaginal Mesh attorney, and Dallas medical doctor, we are reporting this important potential transvaginal mesh settlement breakthrough. According to sources, C.R. Bard Inc., and other makers of vaginal-mesh implants, are in advanced talks to settle thousands of vaginal mesh product liability lawsuits.

Ethicon_Gynecare_Transvaginal_Mesh_Lawsuits Bard, Endo Health Solutions Inc. the parent of AMS, Boston Scientific Corp., Coloplast and Cook Medical Inc. manufacturers making vaginal mesh devices to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in talks about settling all suits.

Johnson & Johnson, which also faces suits over the vaginal mesh devices, isn’t involved in the talks.

Transvaginal mesh injury lawsuits are consolidated and coordinated in 6 individual multidistrict litigations (MDLs) established in the federal court system. These injury claims against vaginal mesh manufacturers have now become the largest pending litigation in the U.S.

Ethicon_Gynecare_Transvaginal_Mesh_Lawsuits30,000 Active Mesh Lawsuits and Climbing

There are more than 30,000 complaints filed in U.S. District Courts over injuries with transvaginal mesh and bladder sling products. These medical devices have been used for treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and female stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

According to reports, C.R. Bard Inc., has agreed to settle a one of its Avaulta vaginal-mesh implant lawsuits, which allegedly caused severe urinary problems. This case was set for  trial this month in New Jersey.

Bard Avaulta Mesh Injury AttorneyBard agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to resolve Melanie Virgil’s claims that Bard’s Avaulta Plus insert caused urinary problems. Virgil’s case had been set for a Sept. 23 trial in state court in Atlantic City.

According to the filings, the 56-year-old woman said she needed three surgeries to address urinary problems created by the insert.

Recently, Bard settled the second federal Avaulta bellwether trial over its alleged defective transvaginal mesh devices. The settlement was announced by U.S. District Judge Goodwin, who is supervising the transvaginal mesh product liability lawsuits in Charleston, W.Va.

Bard Avaulta Mesh Injury AttorneyAs previously noted, in the first Bard Avaulta bellwether trial, the jury awarded $2 million to a woman who claimed that Bard failed to warn of defects in its product that caused her mesh side effects. The settlement ended the second trial, brought by a North Carolina woman, Wanda Queen. A third bellwether case goes to trial on October 8 and a fourth on November 4.

Over 20,000 Trans Vaginal Mesh Lawsuits Pending

Last week, a federal jury in West Virginia awarded $2 million in damages in a Bard Avaulta vaginal mesh defective product liability claim. The verdict included punitive damages to punish CR Bard Inc., the manufacturer for selling a defective product that has been linked to severe internal injuries.

Bard Avaulta Mesh Injury AttorneyThis is the first federal Vaginal Mesh verdict, in more than 25,000 vaginal mesh lawsuits pending in the federal court system.

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