Three lawsuits were filed March 23 alleging Nevro’s spinal cord stimulators are defectively designed and made patient’s chronic pain worse, AboutLawsuits reported March 30.
All three lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and they raise concerns about how the devices were programmed and marketed.
The patients bringing lawsuits all said they received “trial” devices that provided initial pain relief, the report said. However long-term results included side effects and unresolved pain.
Additionally, one patient said a Nevro sales representative met with him to address his issues and reprogrammed the device without his physician present, he alleged in the lawsuit. Another patient said she needed a foley catheter and suffered a pulmonary embolism.
The patients alleged that they were not told the trial device would work differently than the actual spinal cord stimulator implant.
Nevro did not respond to a March 31 request for comment from Becker’s.
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