Injured Due to IVC Filter Complications? Here’s What You Should Do

Many people in the United States have suffered awfully after they were implanted with the Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter. An IVC filter is a spider-shaped device that is implanted by doctors into the inferior vena cava to stop blood clots from reaching one’s lungs.

So what exactly is an IVC filter?

Manufactured by C.R. Bard and Cook, these IVC filter devices were designed to prevent blood clot from traveling to one’s lungs. This device looks like a metal cage and a patients is surgically implanted with it into their vein (inferior vena cava: probably the largest vein in a human body).

Introduced way back in 1979, the use of this device has constantly been increasing and until almost 4 years ago, doctors inserted around 259,000 devices in patients.

IVC filters help people to recover from surgeries and accidents by putting a stop to the occurrence in which lung clots can become fatal.

IVC Filter Complications:

• Perforation
• Fractures
• Migration
• Heart or Lung Injury
• Wrongful Death

Types of IVC filters

Well, there are two varieties of IVC filters: temporary and permanent.

While the permanent ones seem to have caused no side effects or complications to people who’ve been implanted with, the temporary devices have caused complications that have proven to be life-threatening.

Some of the patients have even lost their lives after small pieces of this device broke and migrated to their vital organs: lungs, heart etc. It’s unfortunate to know that such devices are linked to various side effects or IVC filter complications that have severely injured not few but many patients.

Filing an IVC filter lawsuit

If you have been awfully injured, consider filing an IVC filter lawsuit against the device manufacturers. Serious complications have occurred not only with you but many making them suffer excruciating pain and other losses. A professional lawyer with the relevant experience in handling your type case can advise you what you should be doing to receive maximum compensation.

Most IVC filters inserted have been retrievable ones that allowed the doctors to remove the device after the blood clot has passed. However, due to the lack of warnings associated with IVC filters which should have been provided by the manufacturers, these devices were kept inside one’s body which likely increased the risk of facing injuries.

We understand the level of pain you may have gone through after the breakage of the IVC filter and migrating to one of your vital organs. So don’t let time slip you by and seek expert assistance as to what you should be doing so as to file a IVC filter lawsuit to get the compensation you deserve.

Jeff Campbell is a lawyer by profession in a personal injury trial firm in Dallas, Texas. In his free time, he likes to surf net, write and publish content on the web related to legal services.