Vertebroplasty isn't not a new or experimental procedure. As in, “bone cements” have been used to stabilize vertebral compression for at least twenty years.
“Bone cement” has been used for around 60 years.
Likewise, the complication of blood clots has been known...for around 60 years.
Blood clots. But the reporter kept using the phrase “bled out.” Clots, as one would assume, cause blockages not massive hemorrhage.
The mentioned patients were elderly. Where they the usual elderly patients with limited mobility and on Coumadin, plavix, and daily aspirin? If so, what was the PT/INR time? These patients are a high risk surgical group for even a mole removal or biopsy.
Oh, yes. All drugs, implants, pins, replacements, suture materials have been developed with human experimentation. Pigs can only get you so far. Human trials are required.
Lastly. Synthes was a huge Obama/ Hillary donor. A couple huge donations got the DOJ to give a basic slap on the wrist for the CEO and a term at Club Med prison for a couple others. So why the press six years later?
Don’t know the particulars of this substance, but it sounds like DIC, disseminated intravascular coagulation, which can be caused by several different insults, trauma, infection.
It is a domino effect of abnormal clotting throughout the bloodstream. The clots themselves are small, but there are so many that they basically use up all of the blood’s ability to clot. Then you start bleeding from everywhere.
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