What Is Medical Device Failure?
Medical device failure is fairly straightforward—when an item or part that is meant to help you ends up causing you major health complications, then it has failed. That extends to any sort of medical device, from devices that doctors use to treat you to incredibly small implanted parts. There are a few different types of device failure.
The types of medical device failure are:
- Design Defect – When a device is flawed and dangerous from the outset, with no way of being “repaired” to be safer.
- Marketing Defect – When the risks associated with a device are not property disclosed to doctors or patients.
- Manufacturing Defect – When a device is flawed because it was not made according to its own design specifications.
There are recent examples of both design and manufacturing defects in medical devices. IVC filters, or small cage-like wire devices placed in major veins, are intended to stop blood clots from reaching the heart or lungs. However, they are known to dislodge and migrate from where they’re placed, becoming a major danger to patients. Some of them can even become embolized, which is what they were built to prevent.
An example of a design flaw is the morcellator, a device that is created to grind up large tumors with minimal surgery, allowing surgeons to change the way they treat cancer. However, the morcellator has a high-rate of accidentally spreading cancerous tumors, turning Stage I cancer in Stage IV with a single procedure. This is not a manufacturing defect—it is simply an effect the manufacturer never considered in the design stage.
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