Patients Were Implanted with Heart Pumps That the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous

Posted by aalam on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:34PM
from the propublica.org dept.

https://www.propublica.org/article/heartware-patients-implanted-fda

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Re:Patients Were Implanted with Heart Pumps That the FDA Kne... by perl4ever on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:29PM (#28081408)

The title irks me.

I can't really imagine an implanted heart pump that couldn't be dangerous.

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Re:Patients Were Implanted with Heart Pumps That the FDA Kne... by Accujack on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:43PM (#28081953)

You'd be surprised. FDA rules require medical products to be safe, among other things. An implanted pump that's dangerous is the exception, not the rule (as it should be).

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Re:Patients Were Implanted with Heart Pumps That the FDA Kne... by aalam on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:59PM (#28081618)

“Defective” could have been more precise, and would match the reporting (though I kept the title close to the source material’s to meet HN guidelines, truncating the start to meet the character limit).

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