6,000 patients under observation over faulty orthopedics scandal (el pais)
An unreported case in May 2014
Traiber’s expired orthopedic products began hurting patients six months before the AEMPS learned of it and issued a recall. The judge in charge of the case knows of at least one case on May 5, 2014 when doctors at Santa Tecla Hospital in Tarragona had to operate on a patient just six weeks after receiving a Traiber knee implant. During this second surgery, medics found that the recent implant was severely deteriorated and berated a Traiber representative for it, yet failed to report the case.
Former Traiber workers said that there was a moment of great tension inside the operating room, where a company representative was present to witness the surgery.
“When they cut the knee open, the orthopedic surgeons found that the white polyethylene piece implanted just weeks earlier was highly deteriorated and yellowish,” they said.
The doctors turned angrily to the Traiber representative. “You guys can say goodbye to this hospital right now. We’re never going to buy another piece from you again. This is bad enough to file a complaint,” they said, according ...
