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Big Amounts to be paid out by Pain Pump Manufacturers

From nine lawsuits, plaintiffs are suing pain pump manufacturers for $68 million according to the Phoenix Business Journal. A growing number of lawsuits are being filed due to the disabling of the plaintiffs' shoulders from post surgical treatment. The pain pumps administer anesthetics via a catheter into the shoulder joint.

The Food and Drug Administration denied pain pumps to be directly inserted into the joint and doctors have now linked a connection between the uses of the pumps with a disabling condition known as chondrolysis. Chondrolysis is caused from the catheter's insertion directly into the joint and the anesthetics it shoots into the joint burns away the cartilage causing the bones to grind each other. It is a permanent condition usually resulting in partial and complete shoulder replacements.

It is because pain pump manufacturers direct surgeons to insert the pumps directly into the joint that they are being prosecuted for negligence. The Food and Drug Administration approved, however, the pain pumps to be inserted safely into the tissue around the joint, but pain manufacturers did not want to adhere to them.

As a result, more than 140 lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts.

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