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Death Prompts Pradaxa Side Effect Lawsuit
By Scott Hardy
Loraine Franklin’s family filed a Pradaxa lawsuit after she died from an uncontrollable intracranial hemorrhage due to a fall. Typically an intracranial hemorrhage can be controlled once a patient is admitted to a hospital. Unfortunately in Loraine’s case she was on Pradaxa at the time of the hemorrhage and doctors were unable to stop the internal bleeding alleges the Pradaxa lawsuit. Loraine died within twenty-four hours of her fall.Uncontrollable internal bleeding is alleged to be a common side effect of Pradaxa. That’s why patients are filing lawsuits alleging that Pradaxa has serious, and unadvertised, side effects which may kill. Pradaxa internal bleeding or hemorrhage lawsuits typically allege that Boehringer Ingelheim did not adequately inform patients and their prescribing doctors of the risks of uncontrollable bleeds associated with Pradaxa usage, nor did Boehringer Ingelheim warn or otherwise advise on how to intervene and stabilize a patient should a bleed occur during. Pradaxa hemorrhage lawsuits allege that the only way to control internal bleeding via medication is to flush the patient’s system of Pradaxa via dialysis which can take hours. While a patient is on dialysis they may bleed out and die or require multiple blood transfusions to survive. Doctors are looking for alternative ways to stop Pradaxa patients from bleeding out.
In Loraine’s case doctors worked extremely hard in their attempts to stop the intracranial hemorrhage but could not stop the bleeding. Typically, all it takes to stop internal bleeding, if the patient is on Coumadin, is flushing the system with Vitamin K. This negates the effect of Coumadin and allows the patient’s blood to clot. Because Loraine was on Pradaxa the doctors had no way to control the bleeding and she died.
Loraine’s family alleges in their Pradaxa lawsuit that she, and her family, were never warned of the risk of uncontrollable internal bleeding while on Pradaxa.Users of Pradaxa need to know the symptoms of internal bleeding. The Pradaxa hemorrhage lawsuit alleges that if Loraine was made aware of the side effects of Pradaxa she may have opted for Coumadin or another blood thinner drug.
Pradaxa patients may be experiencing internal bleeding if they have pink or brown urine, red or black stools, bruises that happen without a known cause and may get larger, if they are coughing up blood or blood clots and/or vomiting blood or their vomit includes particles that look like coffee grounds. If you or a family member are taking, or were taking Pradaxa or a blood thinner medication, and experienced internal bleeding or hemorrhage, you may be able to file a lawsuit to help you pay for your expenses, pain and suffering, and recovery.
If you would like more information about filing a Pradaxa internal bleeding class action lawsuit, would like to speak with experienced Pradaxa lawyers who are actively filing internal bleeding cases, or would like to file a Pradaxa internal bleeding lawsuit just go to the Pradaxa Internal Bleeding Class Action Lawsuit Investigation page. Pradaxa attorneys are actively investigating all claims regarding internal bleeding, hemorrhage and other problems which may have been caused by Pradaxa or warfarin. Remember, the Pradaxa lawyers who work with Top Class Actions will tell you if you have a case for free. There’s never any charge for an initial consultation with an attorney filing Pradaxa lawsuit you find through Top Class Actions.
Updated May 24th, 2012
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