Bloomberg
- Oct 27, 2013
Mother Dies Amid Abuses in $110 Billion U.S. Stent Assembly Line
Najam Azmat snaked a catheter on a guide wire into Judi Gary’s groin as he tried to insert a stent in an artery supplying blood to her pelvis and right leg. On an X-ray monitor near where Gary lay, nurses saw blood leakages. The wire seemed to be in the wrong place, nurse Evan Gourley told Azmat. Everything was fine, the vascular surgeon replied. It wasn’t. Azmat tore Gary’s aorta during the December 2005 procedure, according to documents filed with a U.S. Justice Department
Bloomberg
- Oct 7, 2013
Needless Stents Alleged at Kentucky Hospital Amid 2-Year Probe
An Appalachian Kentucky hospital that’s been among the nation’s leaders in the rate of coronary stenting is under federal investigation for implanting the metal mesh devices needlessly, according to its spokesman. Federal prosecutors have been probing King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Kentucky, since 2011 for suspected overstenting, said Tom Dearing, the 373-bed hospital’s marketing and public relations manager. The investigation involves stents inserted by the hear
