Louisiana Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters were designed and sold as a supposedly secure fallback to help avert pulmonary embolism for patients who for various medical reasons could not take blood thinners. Unfortunately for over the last ten years these filters have continuously been alleged to have been at fault for adverse conditions due to breaking of the filter. The best IVC filter lawyers have been pursuing these claims on behalf of their clients for several years now. While you can get a full run down of this litigation from a Louisiana IVC filter claim lawyer here, IVC Filter Claims , the following are 4 things you need to know if you believe you or a family member have been injured by an one of these products.
- Removal of the device is only the first step
Most importantly, if you or a loved one has a IVC filter, you need to seek medical advice. The FDA released a bulletin in 2010 advising that IVC filters should be removed as soon as the danger of embolism has passed. Despite this removal itself can be difficult or impossible. A study conducted at the Boston Medical Centre in March 2013 found that, of the IVC filters studied, only 8.5% were successfully removed.