Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Paulos v. Stryker Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 7, 2014No. 13-2509, 13-2647PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
In the early 2000s, doctors saw a spike in the number of patients developing chon-drolysis — a rare and “painful medical condition whereby an individual loses articular cartilage in a joint,” Mack v. Stryker Corp., 748 F.3d 845, 848 (8th Cir.2014). Concern then surfaced that this spike was related to the use of medical devices known as “pain pumps” to deliver anesthetics via catheter into patients’ joint spaces (the area surrounding a joint). 1 See, e.g., id. at 848, n. 3; Huggins v. Stryker Corp., 932 F.Supp.2d 972, 978 (D.Minn.2013). This concern triggered several studies…
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