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Defibrillators - Pacemakers - Stents - Baxter Pumps
Thousands of patients have been injured over the years by malfunctioning medical devices. These defective or problematic devices range from stents, Guidant defibrillators and pacemakers to hip replacements and Baxter medicine pumps. Sometimes a device-related injury, even death, can occur during an implant procedure while in other instances an injury can go undiscovered for years.
If you had a loved one who died because of a defective medical device, you may need an attorney with the experience to handle a potential lawsuit. Kline & Specter, P.C., based in Philadelphia and with more than 30 lawyers (several of them also highly regarded doctors) has successfully litigated many product liability and mass tort cases, particularly in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. We are currently handling a number of cases involving patients who used Guidant Corp. and Medtronic Inc. products. Click here to contact an attorney. Pacemakers Guidant announced on Sept. 23 that it was recalling 170,000 Insignia and Nexus pacemakers due to malfunctions. The devices were subject to sudden loss -- both intermittent and permanent -- of pacing output or loss of telemetry without warning. Learn more ... Defibrillators Guidant and Medtronic have acknowledged problems with cardiac defibrillators implanted in patients. Guidant in June 2005 voluntarily recalled almost 50,000 of the devices because certain models contained a flaw that caused some units to short-circuit and malfunction, resulting in at least two reported deaths and potentially many more. Learn more ... Stents Two types of stents have come under recent scrutiny -- drug-eluting stents made by Boston Scientif Corp. and Johnson & Johnson and the Ancure endograft, whose sales have already been halted by manufacturer Endovascular Technologies. Baxter Medicine Pumps Some 255,000 Baxter Healthcare Corp. pumps were recalled in July 2005 because the intravenous pumps can inadvertently shut down, depriving patients of needed medicine. Learn more ... *** Kline & Specter, P.C., has had excellent results with lawsuits involving defective products, especially those filed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware but also others across the nation. (See our Major Victories.) Kline & Specter handles cases in the areas:
In Pennsylvania: Allentown, Altoona, Bethlehem, Doylestown, Erie, Franklin, Gettysburg, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Hershey, Johnstown, Lancaster, Media, Norristown, Pittsburgh, Pottstown, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, State College, Sunbury, West Chester, Williamsport, York.
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