Technology & Science
Sep. 17, 2010
Device Makers Want Baby Steps
A patient in a typical hip replacement surgery, following several months of physical therapy after the major medical procedure, can expect their new device to last 15 years and, with care, the rest of their lives. But not the 93,000 patients.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
After months of physical therapy, a patient receiving a typical hip replacement surgery can expect their new device to last 15 years and, with care, the rest of their lives.
But not the 93,000 patients who received new hips manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics Inc.
One study found that an unlucky 13 percent of patients who received the DePuy devices, which were recalled by...
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