The IVC Filter Is Substantially Similar To The Faulty And Defective Essure Birth Control Device

It is never a good idea to place metal within the human body intending to leave it there permanently.

Monday, November 1, 2021 - IVC filter patients have filed lawsuits against Bard for rushing to market a faulty medical device without testing it. Plaintiffs allege that the device's fundamental design flaws have led to their injuries. Approximately 9000 IVC filter complication lawsuits await Bard for bringing an allegedly faulty medical device to market, one full of life-threatening design flaws. The IVC filter must be delicate and flexible enough to exist within the inferior vena cava, the artery leading to major organs. It also must be strong enough to trap and hold blood clots against the tide of blood that will constantly flow past it. Once the strength and flexibility problem is solved, the next issue will be what material to make the device from and whether or not the human body's immune system will attack it and dissolve it and the tissues around it into mush. The IVC filter construction must be flexible enough to absorb any blow from the outside without fracturing the device or sending the device through the IVC, penetrating it, and then being free to migrate to other parts of the body. Plaintiffs have been awarded more than $9 million in Bard IVC filter lawsuits that allege the device broke into pieces during the removal surgery and the pieces became lodged in the heart or lungs. Bard, the maker of the IVC filter defend the device by saying that all of the criteria above have been met and that the FDA has approved the device, but that is not saying much. The IVC filter was approved via the FDA's flawed 501 k fast-track approval system, where potentially life-saving medical devices are little more than rubber-stamped to market. All a medical device like the IVC filter has to prove is that it is similar to another medical device that has already been approved, regardless of whether that target device has been recalled or the subject of personal injury lawsuits. The FDA relies on reports made to their MAUDE database from surgeons and patients to report defects in the device, and only then does the FDA take a deeper look.

The IVC filter design concept of trapping blood clots permanently in the artery does not take into account that the device will eventually fill up and need to be removed and replaced, or else it will become the source of the blockage. It could take a month or a year for the filter to fill up, and there is no way to evaluate the device's status while it is in place. Also, the IVC filter is nearly impossible to remove by minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery like the type used to insert it because the filter becomes embedded in scar tissue over time. The IVC filter becomes encased within scar tissue within the inferior vena cava like the Essure birth control coils became encased in scar tissue within a woman's Fallopian tubes, creating scar tissue, and blocking sperm from reaching the eggs. The maker of Essure has been forced to pay billions of dollars to women who have been injured by the Essure birth control device. How is the IVC filter any different? Both create sufficient irritation while in place to cause scar tissue to encapsulate it and also elicit an autoimmune response from the body.

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• IVC Filter Removal Continues To Generate Controversy In Medical Circles | 2/12/2022
• Pulmonary Embolism Kills Over 100,000 People Each Year Hospitalized With Traumatic Injury | 2/7/2022
• Bard Faces Thousands Of IVC Filter Lawsuits Over The Product's Unique Inherent Design Defects | 2/2/2022
• Stanford's Dr. Kuo Has Helped Pioneer Advanced IVC Filter Laser Retrieval | 1/28/2022
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• Doctors May Use IVC Filters More Often Now That Laser Removal Is An Option | 1/10/2022
• IVC Filter Lasers Highlights Focus Attention On Removal Complications | 1/4/2022
• IVC Filter Retrieval Complications Have Been Known For Years | 12/30/2021
• Lasers May Now Enable Doctors To Safely Retrieve Embedded IVC Filters | 12/22/2021
• IVC Filters May Do Nothing To Prevent Death Or Pulmonary Embolism For Trauma Patients | 12/16/2021
• IVC Filters Can Help Save The Lives Of Young People That Experience Multiple Sudden Blood Clots | 12/1/2021
• The FDA Recommends That An IVC Filter Stay In Place No Longer Than Two Months | 11/26/2021
• Bard Sales Reps, Surgeons, And Even The FDA All Looked The Other Way And Failed To Warn IVC Filter Patients | 11/18/2021
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• Blood Clot Patients Chest Pain Patients Are Talking To IVC Filter Lawyers About Holding Bard Accountable | 11/5/2021
• The Food And Drug Administration Has Been Warning Surgeons About The IVC Filters Design Flaws For More Than A decade | 10/28/2021
• IVC Filter Heart Pain Could Be From The Device Having Fractured Into Pieces | 10/25/2021
• Bellwether Bard IVC Filter Lawsuit Highlights The Design Flaws | 10/20/2021
• IVC Filters Could Be Unnecessary If A Person Leads A Healthy Lifestyle | 10/15/2021
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• Bard IVC Filters May Tilt, Migrate and Perforate The Artery Where They Were Implanted | 10/11/2021
• A Report Published In 2006 Documented IVC Filter Catastrophies | 10/5/2021
• Medical Safety Groups Call For The End of the FDA Fast-Track Medical Device Approval Process | 9/30/2021
• IVC Filters May Not Be Needed And Offer No Reduction In Mortality | 9/27/2021
• IVC Filters Are Implanted As A Last Resort And Left In Place Only If Blood Clotting Continues And There Is No Alternative | 9/24/2021
• IVC Filters Are A Bad Idea Fraught With Life-Threating Complications | 9/20/2021
• Doctors May Consider Vitamin K Anti-Coagulant Therapy Before Recommending IVC Filters | 9/15/2021
• Surgeons May Not Be Able To Retreive the Bard IVC Filter After Two or Three Months | 9/11/2021
• A High Failure Rate For IVC Filter Removal Can Be Expected And Surgeons Should Prepare For The Worse | 9/7/2021
• Thousands Of IVC Filters May Eventually Experience Catastrophic Failure | 9/2/2021
• Most Bard IVC Filters are Doomed To Failure and Surgeons Would Never Attempt To Retrieve It | 8/31/2021
• A California Jury Finds The Bard IVC Filter Is Negligently Designed | 8/27/2021
• Scar Tissue Build Up After 60 Days May Prevent Safe Bard IVC Filter Removal | 8/23/2021
• IVC Filter Removal Requires Using Force When Trapped In Place By Scar Tissue | 8/19/2021
• Bard IVC Filters Have Caused Severe Damage More Than 10% Of The Time | 8/14/2021
• A Fourth Jury Finds Bard IVC Filters Defective | 8/10/2021
• Patients With IVC Filters Should Contact Their Physicians Immediately | 12/21/2018
• Lawsuits Filed Across Wide Variety of IVC Filter Manufacturers | 12/18/2018
• IVC Filter Patients May Be Eligible to File A Claim Against CR Bard | 12/13/2018
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• CR Bard Forced To Compensate Injured IVC Filter Patients | 11/27/2018
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• Bellwether Trials Underway For Bard IVC Filters | 8/29/2018
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