Here are five things to know:
1. In 2015, Mr. Gorsuch denied a woman the right to sue Dublin-based Medtronic for injuries she claimed were caused by the company’s Infuse bone graft’s off-label promotion.
2. Mr. Gorsuch’s ruling applies the restriction to situations where devices were used in non-FDA-approved ways.
3. His opinion in rooted in the notion that state law can’t impose new requirements on FDA-approved medical devices, as he said, “A state’s judgment that a device is unsafe for a particular off-label use could require design changes that adversely affect the device’s safety for on-label uses.”
4. Should Mr. Gorsuch be confirmed, he is expected to bring similar beliefs to Supreme Court cases.
5. Physicians aren’t legally obligated to warn patients if a device is used in an off-label manner. Technically, once the FDA approves a device for a single use, physicians and patients may use it however they wish.
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