Personal Injury - Pain Pump
Pain Pump Lawsuit
Greenberg and Bederman is an injury law firm based in Silver Spring, Maryland, but our practice extends to Baltimore, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. We are currently accepting cases involving those who have experienced pain and suffering due to the implantation of the shoulder pain pump during surgery. If you or a loved one is suffering from pain, inflammation or difficulties in movement due to complications with your shoulder pain pump, contact Greenberg and Bederman for a free legal consultation today.
When people undergo surgery, they are usually doing so under the assumption that the procedure will fix what is ailing them. Nobody in their right mind would have a surgical procedure done to them if they knew that they were only exchanging one physical ailment for another that is even more painful.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what has happened to thousands of Americans who underwent arthroscopic shoulder surgery over the past few years.
The problem is not in the arthroscopic procedure itself, but rather in a pump and catheter that delivers pain medication directly to the shoulder joint. This pump was implanted during thousands of surgical procedures and was left there for several days as part of the healing process.
A significant percentage of patients who had the pain pump used during the procedure suffered from the deterioration of shoulder cartilage. Since this cartilage is crucial to even the smallest of movements of the shoulder, its loss can cause excruciating pain. This condition has since been named Postarthroscopic glenohumeral chondrolysis, or PAGCL. What almost all of the sufferers of this condition have in common was the use of the shoulder pain pump during their arthroscopic shoulder surgeries. Patients who didn’t have the pump and catheter implanted during shoulder surgeries have not suffered from any similar effects.
What is especially galling about these cases is that many of the companies that marketed these pumps and catheters were doing so without the approval of the Food and Drug Administration. According to the Phoenix Business Journal:
“Some pain-pump manufacturers failed to tell doctors that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration denied them clearance several times to market the device for use in the shoulder joint…The pain pump was approved by the FDA for use in tissue around the shoulders, but injecting it inside the shoulder joint was denied, Kalur said. The FDA later said it had mistakenly approved the wrong indication for use and didn’t catch the error until five months later, when another manufacturer, Stryker Corp., tried to get similar approval for its pain pump…”
Equally disturbing is the fact that not one of these manufacturers has issued a product recall, nor have they even notified surgeons that injecting the catheter directly into the shoulder joint has been the cause of these complications.
The end result of this faulty product is that thousands of Americans are now living their lives in ceaseless pain, with many of them unable to return to work or otherwise support themselves. Was this what these patients had in mind when they agreed to undergo the initial surgical procedure?
At Greenberg and Bederman, we have years of experience in helping the injured of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. receive fair compensation for their injuries, and that includes those who have had their lives irrevocably altered due to the use ofdefectiveproducts and medical devices. If you have been injured or have seen the quality of your life deteriorate due to the use of a shoulder pain pump after arthroscopic surgery, contact Greenberg and Bedermanfor a free legal consultation today.
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