DePuy vs. Zimmer

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Anonymous said:
Thought Stryker had #1 Market share??? They have the easiest knee for techs and surgeons from what I hear.
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You hear wrong. Any company can make simplified instrumentation for any knee. I have had 4 different custom sets made for individual surgeons who all wanted something they wanted to improve. I don't work for either company.
 






Anonymous said:
DePuy- to name a few: Revisions Knees, RP Knee, Pinnacle Cup, Altrx Poly, Uni Knee, Anchor Peg Glenoid, Reverse Shoulder, Limb Preservation
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The DePuy ASR Acetabular System hip replacement recall is not the only artifical hip to be recalled in recent history. Stryker and Zimmer also underwent recalls due to malfunctioning products. Stryker recalled the Trident PSL and Hemispherical Acetabular hip replacement cups after the FDA issued a warning in January 2008. Poor sterilization and bacterial contamination were the main reasons for issuing a recall. From 2005-2008, Stryker cup users reported pain, difficulty walking, squeaking, crunching, breakage, and a wearing down of essential components. Fracturing and chipping of the bone meant patients makes it more difficult to receive a second implant in a revision surgery.

The Zimmer Durom cup was recalled due to its high rate of failure, including a chance of loosening. The cup was used in about 12,000 hip replacement surgeries in the United States, and much like the DePuy recall case, Zimmer blamed surgeons for improper placement of the implant. Surgeons, however, blamed Zimmer for poor design. In July 2008 the cup was taken off the market, three months after a well-known California surgeon voiced concerns at a medical conference.

DePuy, Zimmer and Stryker knew there were problems with their products long before they decided to issue a recall. Over 400 complaints stacked up against DePuy before their recall was announced, and they left it until last-minute to issue a recall. As a hip replacement recall lawyer, I hope everyone who has suffered due to the DePuy hip recall will asses their claim with an ASR recall attorney.
 






First, the Stryker info stated above is wrong. There are two issues here. One, Trident was recalled by Stryker , since they found manufacturing processes had not been reported to the FDA. The second issue was the FDA inspection, where implants such as Trident got called out for questionable manufacturing processes. No action was needed by Stryker from this action in regards to recall etc., except to right the FDA warning.
Trident shells were never recalled for patient failures etc.
This is different to DePuys ASR and Zimmers Durom, where failures have been documented by registries. (The Trident continues to be the number one seller in Australia...if a problem, why are the surgeons using ?)
Best Orthopaedic companies survive in the eyes of surgeons by surveillance with their implants and quick withdrawal of any implants that may cause harm to patients...in regards to failure above the gold standard.
All Orthopaedic companies have had problem implants, and will continue to have problem implants....this business does not allow 10 year studies, RSA analysis etc., and then selling on the market
 


















Anonymous said:
The DePuy ASR Acetabular System hip replacement recall is not the only artifical hip to be recalled in recent history. Stryker and Zimmer also underwent recalls due to malfunctioning products. Stryker recalled the Trident PSL and Hemispherical Acetabular hip replacement cups after the FDA issued a warning in January 2008. Poor sterilization and bacterial contamination were the main reasons for issuing a recall. From 2005-2008, Stryker cup users reported pain, difficulty walking, squeaking, crunching, breakage, and a wearing down of essential components. Fracturing and chipping of the bone meant patients makes it more difficult to receive a second implant in a revision surgery.

The Zimmer Durom cup was recalled due to its high rate of failure, including a chance of loosening. The cup was used in about 12,000 hip replacement surgeries in the United States, and much like the DePuy recall case, Zimmer blamed surgeons for improper placement of the implant. Surgeons, however, blamed Zimmer for poor design. In July 2008 the cup was taken off the market, three months after a well-known California surgeon voiced concerns at a medical conference.

DePuy, Zimmer and Stryker knew there were problems with their products long before they decided to issue a recall. Over 400 complaints stacked up against DePuy before their recall was announced, and they left it until last-minute to issue a recall. As a hip replacement recall lawyer, I hope everyone who has suffered due to the DePuy hip recall will asses their claim with an ASR recall attorney.
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trident shells weren't recalled
 
























Whether he/she is a lawyer or not, they are right in this case. DePuy knew there were problems, and continued to sell. Read the article posted on this site quoting a former DePuy user from Knoxville.
 












i love attorneys. they tell there clients to get revision surgeries if they have a depuy hip. 99percent of them have a pinnacle cup which is the number one implanted cup in the world with a 99.7 percent survivorship at 5 years with multiple femoral stems. you put your client in risk of infection and many other complications in revision surgery. shame on you
 






Who ever mentioned Corail is an idiot. only stem with over 20 years of survivorship besides aml, trilock and taperloc. just dumb. depuy did mess up with the asr cup. it is a monobloc design, cobalt chrome and not user friendly. Good surgeons used it in small patients for a greater ROM and shitty surgeons used it for stability. Guess who messed upped
 






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