Posted on 12/13/2005 5:57:04 PM PST by flutters
A medical recall is hitting home today, and the consequences have the potential to be deadly.
A nationwide recall has been issued regarding bone and tissue products that have been used in transplantation. Those products have found their way into patients here in Central Ohio.
Ohio-Health hospitals, which include Riverside Hospital here in Columbus, have been notified by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. Apparently products from a New Jersey company called Biomedical Tissue Services is accused of not following proper protocol when acquiring bone and tissue to distribute to hospitals for surgery.
The bone and tissue products, which are used for anything from bone fillers to skin grafts, have the potential of carrying infectious disease. Apparently the donors weren't screened properly but the company has assured the F-D-A that the products completed a strenuous cleaning process before they were distributed.
Ohio Health has identified all the recipients in Ohio of these products. They say there is less than 150 people affected. And they say the risk of these products being contaminated is less than one-in-one-million. An Ohio Health spokesperson tells us all of the patients who received surgery with these products have been notified and are being asked to undergo infectious disease screenings.
Ohio Health has informed us that they have also checked their inventory to make sure there are no remaining suspect bone and tissue products.
My first thought was, Wow, cool, God posted on FR - bone and tissue recall...
And they say that there is no buying and selling of human parts.
lol What are these poor people to do...give it back?
Yeah! I'll pray for these folks. It's one thing to have a seatbelt recall, or a recall on a kid's toy ... but stuff they put inside you during surgery ... YIKES!
Excerpt:
The New York Daily News reported earlier this month that the district attorney's office in Brooklyn, N.Y., is investigating the company, Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, N.J., on allegations the firm illegally bought body parts from funeral homes to sell to tissue processors. An FDA spokeswoman would not comment on those allegations.
I think they have identified those in my local area but not everyone nationwide.
isn't it kind of too late?? I mean infectious disease would probably already be workin' its magic after first contact with the patient!
Thanks. It wasn't posted on FR so it wasn't important until now. :-)
Good point. :=)
I probably never would have seen the article except that I owned a little stock in one of the companies listed. Ouch!
Thought this was another Tookie story.
looks are so deceiving
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