Zimmer Hip Problems Prompts Call for Warning System

The NY Times is running today a front page, above the fold story about the growing clamor for a national registry for artificial limb patients so that their progress or lack thereof can be tracked via a national database. Other countries have adopted the system, yet the United States stubbornly refuses to do so. After the recent problems with Zimmer hips, proponents of such a registry have a more vocal ally. Dr. Lawrence Dorr, a well-respected orthopaedic surgeon of more than 30 years has lent his voice for the database. Dorr, if you recall, was the orthopaedic surgeon who sounded the alarm on Sulzer hip implants eight years ago. Sulzer withdrew the device six months later and 3,000 revision surgeries were performed due to the Sulzer hip implace defects.
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So when Dr. Lawrence Dorr, a highly paid consultant of Zimmer Holdings, began hearing complaints from his hip replacement patients of excruciating pain and difficulty with the artificial hip he had just implanted, Dorr began looking into the root of the problem. What he found was that in each of the patients who had complained, a Zimmer Durom cup had been implanted. It so concerned Dr. Dorr that he told Zimmer officials about his findings. Yet nothing was done to address the issue. So, Dr. Dorr spoke about it to one of his professional associations and discovered he wasn’t the only orthopaedic surgeon to encounter such problems with the Zimmer Durom cup.
A national database of artificial limb implants would give surgeons an opportunity to share information, experience, diffuculties, and possible solutions. It would also provide consumers with the information they need to make proper decisions in consultation with their surgeon. The database seems like a no-brainer to me but thus far it hasn’t happened.
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