Thursday, February 24, 2011

FDA Pulls back the Medtronic Pump fill

Pump fills are directly injected into the stomach to treat stomach pain and spasticity. Spasticity refers to the distorted movement of the muscle tone that involves hypertonia. It has been seen that they can have really harmful effects and can cause death.

Whenever this drug is refilled, there is concrete feedback that assures that the needle is placed at the right place at the pump reservoir. It has also been seen that the Medtronic has further enlightened itself with the help of better knowledge provided by the in depth reviews.

Any under dose or overdose can lead to severe after –effects that can even lead to death. It has been reported that around eight death and other 270 cases of life threatening injuries have been caused from May 1996 through September 2010.

Cindy Resman defends saying that only 0.01 % of adverse effects have been noted which is in the case of most of the drugs. He also adds that his physicians are aware of this fact.

It has also been stated that oral medications do not work in severe conditions and hence the necessity to take these refills occurs.

Neither are the researchers very curious about these drugs nor are they sure if these refills can deliver long-term results.

Previously these refills were used in case of cancer and post-operative pain, but these many have started in taking it for chronic back pain.

It has also been considered that these drugs do not consist of narcotics that the other pain reliefs that we consume consist of. Thus, these refills which are injected directly into the back can provide immediate relief.

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