RE: [IP] Driver's Insulin Pump Blamed for Fatal Crash

[Margaret Clarkson <email @ redacted>]

> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:31:34 EST
> From: email @ redacted
> Subject: [IP] Driver's Insulin Pump Blamed for Fatal
> Crash
> 
>
http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/pl/med/20050331/20050331kennedy.html
> 
> Driver's Insulin Pump Blamed for Fatal Crash
> By Jodine Mayberry
> Medical Devices Litigation Reporter
> 
> A Warren County, Ky., man was killed in a motor
> vehicle collision after his
> insulin pump failed to deliver sufficient medication
> and he lost consciousness
> behind the wheel, according to a lawsuit filed in a
> Kentucky federal court.
> Plaintiff Paula Kennedy, the administrator of
> Jeffrey T. Kennedy's estate,
> alleges her husband was killed Feb. 17, 2004, when
> his Paradigm Sof-set
> Ultimate
> QR Infusion Set malfunctioned. The pump was attached
> to his abdomen and sent
> the insulin into his system through an intravenous
> tube.

<snip...> 

> Kennedy et al. v. Medtronic Inc. et al., No.
> 05-CV-15, complaint filed (W.D.
> Ky. Feb. 16, 2005).
> Medical Devices Litigation Reporter
> Volume 12, Issue 03
> 03/31/2005


*grrr* you would think a "medical devices litigation
reporter" would know the difference between
intravenous and subcutaneous?

If this is real, MM better get those infusion sets off
of the market faster than fast.

Margaret


		
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