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Alert related to Medical Device Trailblazer Support Catheters, serius injures or even Death !

Saturday, January 9, 2010 0:03

endovascular therapy with cathetersCatheter is famous device with people that have illness and need treatment for catheterization.
Medical action like surgery that performed inside the aorta is familiar to use catheters.
This catheters mostly used to guide and deliver a stent-graft through the blood vessels to the site of the aneurysm. Then..so on….

Most this device is safe ‘natural’ for ‘delivering process’, but recently founded high risk due to may crack “near the radiopaque marker band”.

Currently, FDA and the maker announced one product from ev3 Inc certain called ‘Trailblazer Support Catheter’ should not used for specific date manufactured/delivered and must be recalled.

The device itself may cause serious injures or even death.

The agency said, “This may result in serious patient injury, including insufficient oxygen supply to the tissues, damage to blood vessels, heart attack, limb amputation, unplanned surgery, and/or death.”

Due to the device distributed from September 21, 2009 through October 27, 2009, then probably have been used for some patient.
If you or someone you known have experienced with this treatment of this device, we recommend you to contact your health care provider or doctor for more detail.

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