{"id":12785,"date":"2019-03-07T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12785"},"modified":"2019-03-07T10:10:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:10:26","slug":"hidden-fda-reports-detail-harm-caused-by-scores-of-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12785","title":{"rendered":"Hidden FDA Reports Detail Harm Caused By Scores Of Medical Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Christine Jewett for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Dr. Douglas Kwazneski was helping a Pittsburgh surgeon remove an appendix when something jarring happened. The surgical stapler meant to cut and seal the tissue around the appendix locked up.<\/p>\n

Kwazneski later turned to the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s public database that tracks medical device failures and \u201cthere was nothing,\u201d he said. Yet when he surveyed leading surgeons on the matter, he discovered that more than two-thirds had experienced a stapler malfunction, or knew a peer who did. Such failures can have deadly consequences.<\/p>\n

Kwazneski had no idea the FDA had quietly granted the makers of surgical staplers a special \u201cexemption\u201d allowing them to file reports of malfunctions in a database hidden from doctors and from public view. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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