Events

Field Safety Notices about ETHICON PHYSIOMESH

According to Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), this field safety notices involved a device in Slovenia that was produced by Ethicon.

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Field safety notices are communications sent out by medical device manufacturers or their representatives in relation to actions that they may be taking in relation to their product that is on the market. These are mainly for health workers, but also for users. They can include recalls and alerts.

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  • Type of Event
    Field Safety Notice
  • Date
    2016-05-25
  • Event Country
    Slovenia
  • Event Source
    AMPMDRS
  • Notes / Alerts
    Data from Slovenia is current through February 2019. All of the data comes from the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices of the Republic of Slovenia (via FOI), except for the categories Manufacturer Parent Company and Product Classification.
    The Parent Company and the Product Classification were added by ICIJ.
    The parent company information is based on 2017 public records. The device classification information comes from FDA’s Product Classification by Review Panel, based on matches of recall data from the U.S. and Slovenia.
  • Extra notes in the data
  • Reason
    Ethicon has initiated a voluntary product recall of ethicon physiomesh™ flexible composite mesh (for laparoscopic use) (“ethicon physiomesh™ composite mesh”). ethicon is recalling the product following an analysis conducted at the request of the ethicon medical safety team of unpublished data from two (2) large independent hernia registries (herniamed german registry and danish hernia database-dhdb). the recurrence/reoperation rates (respectively) after laparoscopic ventral hernia repair using ethicon physiomesh™ composite mesh were higher than the average rates of the comparator set of meshes among patients in these registries. .

Device

ETHICON PHYSIOMESH
  • Model / Serial
  • Manufacturer
    Ethicon

Manufacturer

Ethicon