Lawsuits have been filed by people who were injured by a Bard PowerPort.
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What is the Bard PowerPort?
The Bard PowerPort is an implantable port/catheter system that is sold by C.R. Bard and Beckton Dickinson (BD). This type of medical device is also called a Totally Implantable Vascular Access Device (TIVAD) or a “Port-A-Cath.”
How Does It Work?
The PowerPort is surgically implanted completely under the patient’s skin, where it is connected to a flexible catheter tube that empties into a large vein. Once the PowerPort is implanted, it remains in the body.
Why Get a PowerPort?
The advantage of the PowerPort is that it provides healthcare professionals with an easy way to deliver intravenous medications or fluids directly into a patient’s bloodstream.
After the port is implanted, a nurse can simply insert a needle into the injection port to deliver medications, fluids, blood products, nutrition, or take blood samples.
Who Needs an Implantable Port?
The PowerPort is commonly used in patients who require repeated IV medications or fluids for the long-term treatment of serious health problems. Examples include chemotherapy for cancer, severe infections, kidney failure, Crohn’s disease or IBD, and many more.
What is the Problem?
Lawsuits have been filed by people who experienced problems with their Bard PowerPort.
Bard PowerPort Lawsuit Filed in Missouri
In February 2023, a lawsuit was filed by a woman from Missouri who experienced problems with her Bard PowerPort.
The plaintiff, Patrice T., was implanted with a single lumen Bard PowerPort ClearVue Implantable Port in March 2022. The device was supposed to make it easier to deliver chemotherapy for colon cancer.
Instead, only about 3 weeks after it was implanted, she also hospitalized and diagnosed with blood clots (also called a “thromboembolism”).
The lawsuit alleges that “the roughened catheter surface leads to the collection and proliferation of fibrous blood products, thereby drastically increasing the risk of thromboembolism.”
Her Bard PowerPort Lawsuit was filed on February 10, 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri — Case Number 4:23-cv-00100-BP
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