Bard PowerPort complications: Who’s affected?
If you or a loved one have or had an implanted Bard PowerPort that led to serious complications, you may be eligible for compensation.
When you are ill and medical professionals need constant access to your blood vessels for chemotherapy and other treatments, they may implant a Bard PowerPort under your skin to limit the need to constantly stick you with needles and reinsert intravenous catheters.
This brand of port, implanted after 1996, is alleged to have caused serious complications that may have resulted in death. If you were affected by Bard PowerPort complications, you may be entitled to compensation.
Do you qualify?
If you or a loved one were harmed by a Bard PowerPort implanted after 1996, you may be able to join a lawsuit investigation.
Please fill out the form on this page for more information.
Complaints to FDA
In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a recall for three models of the Bard PowerPort due to problems with the tip. It terminated the recall in 2022.
There is currently no recall on the product, even though consumers filing lawsuits say defects in the port’s material led to hospitalization and surgery.
Although the Bard PowerPort is FDA-approved, the administration received multiple adverse event reports (AERs), such as this one: “When the port was removed, it was discovered to be fractured in 2 places.”
Consumers say the AERs should tell the manufacturer, Bard Access Systems, a subsidiary of Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD), that there is a serious flaw in the device and there should be a device warning.
Serious problems
Patients with implanted Bard PowerPorts have had the devices removed due to serious problems, including:
- Sepsis/blood infections 90 days after implantation: “Sepsis is a serious condition in which the body responds improperly to an infection,” according to the Mayo Clinic. “The infection-fighting processes turns on the body, causing the organs to work poorly. Sepsis may progress to septic shock. This is a dramatic drop in blood pressure that can damage the lungs, kidney, liver and other organs. When the damage is severe, it can lead to death.”
- Migration of the device or pieces: The port may shift from its original place, causing the drug to leak into surrounding tissue or restricted blood flow, according to the National Library of Medicine.
- Fractured device: Fragments may puncture organs and rupture blood vessels.
- Thrombotic stroke/clotting stroke: This is a stroke caused by a blood clot in the arteries supplying blood to the brain, according to MD Anderson. Symptoms of a blood clot include pain and swelling in the back, shoulder or arm.
- Pulmonary embolism caused by blood clots: A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot restricts blood flow to the lung.
- Death
Join a Bard PowerPort class action lawsuit investigation
If you had a Bard PowerPort implanted after 1996 that led to a problem and were treated for injuries requiring hospitalization, medication and/or surgery, you may qualify to participate in a lawsuit investigation.
Please fill out the form on this page to see if you qualify for a FREE case evaluation.
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