Stryker And Zimmer Knee Replacement Devices
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Stryker and zimmer knee replacement devices. More than 150 different knee replacement devices now exist. Notable recalls or discontinuations have been issued for devices from depuy zimmer biomet and stryker orthopedics companies. Some fall prey to device failure and must have early revision surgery. An introduction to fda recalls.
And for many these problems are later explained by a knee replacement recall. Knee replacement recalls have been issued because of loosening early wear or faulty packaging. To replace knee joints in patients with a variety of degenerative knee conditions. In the last five years artificial knee recipients have been hit by a major stryker knee recall and a zimmer knee recall.
Stryker triathlon total knee replacement system stryker. Among the most popular manufacturers in the us stryker offers total partial and revision knee replacement systems that are suitable to a wide variety of patients. Zimmer biomet depuy synthes stryker. Thousands have been affected.
Now that zimmer biomet is selling rosa he said it should significantly reduce customer loss to stryker. Nexgen knee replacement system attune knee system optetrak knee replacement duracon unicompartmental knee shapematch cutting guides. Knee replacement devices have been recalled by the fda or have been discontinued by the manufacturer due to high failure rates and unexpected side effects. One of them was when fda issued a class i recall for the stryker shapematch cutting guide device in 2013.
Oxford partial knee designed to repair only the inside of the knee removing 75 less bone and cartilage than a total knee replacement. We offer market leading knee replacement implants for partial knee and total knee arthroplasty for primary and revision procedures featuring our cemented and cementless flagship tka solution the triathlon knee system. Cutting guides are used by knee replacement surgeons to position device components and mark the bone. Stryker s mako is believed to be responsible for a portion of zimmer biomet s knee market share loss and stryker has indicated that 40 or more of its mako placements have been with competitive surgeons matson said.
Nearly 1 000 implant parts used in knee surgeries have been affected by depuy zimmer biomet and stryker knee replacement recalls.