NMD UP!

Is your google broken?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27584814/

 

"Overall baseline VASB was significantly suppressed in 14 FBSS patients (eight burst/six patients with 10 HF10) from baseline 7.9 ± 0.7 to 2.3 ± 1 (p < 0.001)"

If you're going to rely on a prospective, observational study with EIGHT burst patients to sell your therapy... good luck. The real data is right in the SJM Implanter manual right on page 32. Let's see:

SJM defines responder as ≥30% from baseline for overall daily VAS score.... and "a cross-tabulation of responders for burst stimulation versus tonic stimulation shows numerically more subjects whose VAS score decreased by at least 30% with burst stimulation than with tonic stimulation (18 versus 9). However, this difference was not statistically significant"

Dig deeper to page 37 for the juicy stuff:

Responder rates (decrease of ≥50% from baseline) for overall daily VAS score Overall...
Burst subjects (n/N) 39/100 (39.0%)
Tonic subjects (n/N) 32/100 (32.0%)

Granted, "a total of 49 subjects (49%) responded to tonic stimulation, burst stimulation, or both. The overall VAS scores decreased by at least 50% for more subjects with burst stimulation than with tonic stimulation (17 versus 10)."

If a total of 49% responded to burst, tonic, or both, does that mean 51% of patients failed both tonic and burst stimulation??

Don't like the data? Check for yourself in the Proclaim™ Implantable Pulse Generator Clinician's Manual, Models 3660, 3662, 3665, 3667 [PDF 5.5MB] (EN) at https://manuals.sjm.com/Search-Form?re=North-America&cc=US&ln=EN&qry=Proclaim&ipp=10

 

Nice to see some actual facts

 

Abbott Legal will destroy them like Miles destroyed you.

 

Miles is a stud

 

Do you know that NOBODY cares about NMD? Honestly, it's an afterthought at the meetings. You guys could literally stop selling for a month and hardly anyone would even notice. But, keep up the good work!

 

Words hurt.

 

Yeah but,,,, I thought I was making a difference?

 

So the questions in my mind remain. Last year the CRM/NMD merger was broken apart. For what purpose? Was it because Abbott wasn't interested in NMD and SJM was trying to carve it out to make it easy to sell?

 

Dr. Timothy Deer in Charleston W.V. is the biggest pice of shit in our industry. He is a criminal, fucks over people and deserves the jail time he will get, SJM and ABT knows he takes money at the expense of honesty and his patients; he is white WV trash. I worked at MDT 19 years ago and all he wanted was to fuck our female reps, now he just wants to fuck over people. Lawsuits anyone? Let's kick him out of our industry and fuck him for a change.
$800,000.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 are you fucking kidding me!

 

Words hurt

 

He is as ethical as the next Doc. You need to stop this slander before lawyers get involved.