{"id":23215,"date":"2024-08-15T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23215"},"modified":"2024-08-15T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:17:56","slug":"the-fda-calls-them-recalls-yet-the-targeted-medical-devices-often-remain-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23215","title":{"rendered":"The FDA Calls Them \u2018Recalls,\u2019 Yet the Targeted Medical Devices Often Remain in Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By David Hilzenrath for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, medical device giant Abbott issued a recall for its MitraClip cardiac device \u2014 \u201ca Class I recall, the most serious type,\u201d the FDA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUse of this device may cause serious injuries or death,\u201d an FDA notice about the recall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But neither the manufacturer nor the FDA actually recalled the device or suspended its use. They allowed doctors to continue implanting the clips in leaky heart valves in what has become a common procedure.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/fda-medical-device-recalls-not-removed-from-market-mitraclip\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/fda-medical-device-recalls-not-removed-from-market-mitraclip\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By David Hilzenrath for KFF Health News) In 2016, medical device giant Abbott issued a recall for its MitraClip cardiac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,14],"tags":[76,1041,1482],"class_list":["post-23215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-medical-technology","tag-fda","tag-medical-devices","tag-recalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23217,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions\/23217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}