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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Dec. 5, 2008

Family Blames Death on Bone Product

The family of a California woman who went into respiratory arrest and died after neck surgery has filed a lawsuit blaming a popular bone-growth product made by Medtronic Inc.

By Evan George
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The family of a California woman who went into respiratory arrest and died after neck surgery has filed a lawsuit blaming a popular bone-growth product made by Medtronic Inc.

Shirley Nisbet died because a company salesman persuaded her doctor to use the Infuse Bone Graft in her neck, a use not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, lawyers for the Nisbet family contend.

The la...

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