Personal Injury Law

Trial Practice Investigation - Medical Device Safety

By Steve Lombardi

Let's say you've got a case involving medical devices and it's a contraption you've never seen or heard about. What can you do to become educated about it and about how it has tested in the field of commerce - in this case the medical community. Check out the ECRI Institute's Medical Device Safety Reports database.

Welcome to ECRI Institute's Medical Device Safety Reports (MDSR) database. MDSR is a repository of medical device incident and hazard information independently investigated by ECRI Institute, a nonprofit health research agency. MDSR is not an alerting service, but a periodically updated review of the types of problems that have occurred with medical devices and lessons learned over the past three decades. It focuses on the steps that medical device users can take to prevent or reduce medical device risks to patient care and healthcare worker safety. You can search through MDSR by using either the criteria provided in the pick lists or by using the free text search box below. For current alerts and a historical database see our Health Devices Alerts database.

I was curious about surgical suite fires being caused by laser type equipment. So I went to the site and searched for "fire". The search engine located 48 reports having to do with fires. This is a very useful site for anyone who is curious about medical devices and safety.

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).