Ted Meadows, lead pain pump attorney, discusses the issues surrounding the use of intra-articular post-operative pain pumps.  Pain pumps that dispense medicine directly to the join space can cause permanent cartilage damage, which can lead to joint replacement surgery, shoulder fusion, and amputation in extreme circumstances.

Patients who used the pain pumps - many of them young, active and athletic people - have had to have total shoulder replacements and suffer permanent disability.

Recorded: November 3, 2008

Courtesy of: Beasley Allen Video

Keywords: Pharmaceutical, Pain Pumps and PAGCL