Ireland prepares to review over 3,500 DePuy hip implantees
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Hospitals in Ireland are to review all patients who received DePuy's ASR range of hip replacement systems after the company recalled them (www.clinica.co.uk, 31 August 2010). The planned follow-up of recipients of the 3,516 hip implants sold on the Irish market provides some insight into the impact the recall has had on other national hip replacement markets, and how these may need to respond.