Pulmonary Embolism Kills Over 100,000 People Each Year Hospitalized With Traumatic Injury

Studies show that an IVC filter is next to useless in preventing pulmonary embolism in hospitalized trauma patients

Monday, February 7, 2022 - IVC filters may have been overused by physicians concerned that trauma patients could develop pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lungs) and die. IIVC filters can be a life-saving medical device if used appropriately and for the intended purpose of temporarily trapping blood clots in patients at the highest risk of pulmonary embolisms. People who develop blood clots in the lungs die before treatment can begin about 10% of the time. Pulmonary embolism has a 70% survival rate overal. Not every patient responds positively to blood thinner medicine. Implanting an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter is the next best option but should be considered a last resort. An IVC filter is only a temporary solution and must be removed promptly after 60 days, but it does buy a doctor time to get blood chemistry under control. Surgeons should not use Bard IVC filters in particular, as they have had a greater incidence of fracturing within the inferior vena cava, migrating, and becoming permanently and dangerously embedded in the lungs where surgery to remove them is too risky. According to the Dallas Morning News, "Bard at one point faced more than 8,000 IVC filter lawsuits consolidated in multidistrict litigation in a Phoenix federal court." Attorneys representing large numbers of people with Bard IVC filter complication have rejected settlement offers for blocks of thousands of Bard plaintiffs because of the severity of IVC filter injuries. The Bard filters may tilt and penetrate the inferior vena cava causing internal bleeding and infection. The inferior vena cave is a large vein that carries blood from the lower and middle body and back to the heart.

Other times the device splinters into many sharp metal fragments and travels to the lungs where major surgery is required. "The medical technologies developer and manufacturer's line of IVC filters, which include the Recovery, G2, G2X, Eclipse, Meridian, and Denali filters, are inserted into the inferior vena cava vein to prevent blood clots from traveling to the heart and lungs. When those devices tilt, fracture or perforate vein walls, metal pieces can dislodge and migrate into other parts of the body." Most times, however, the surgeon decides the IVC splinter removal surgery is too risky, and the patient spends the rest of their lives unable to live or work normally. The fractured Bard IVC filter leaves the patient with chronic pain and destined to live the remainder of their life in the wake of instant death should the fragment shift. The FDA warned doctors to consider all IVC filters as temporary, not permanent, and to make sure and remove all brands of IVC filters within two months. This gives the device less time to tilt, and break apart, and also less time to become trapped in scar tissue making removal by anyone other than an experts dangerous.

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