Medical Device Recall Actions
Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants
Medsafe is providing the following information to patients, healthcare professionals, and the media about metal-on-metal (MOM) hip implants.
Questions and Answers
Explanations about what MOM hips are, what issues have occurred, and what
has been done about them is provided in a question and answer format.
Link to Questions and Answers
DePuy ASR Questions and Answers
Explanation of specific matters relating to the 2010 recall action
involving the DePuy ASR Hip System
Link to Questions
and Answers
Timeline for DePuy ASR Hip System
Medsafe has compiled a detailed timeline beginning with the release of the
DePuy ASR Hip System, through to the August 2010 recall action (hazard alert),
and the information issued by other medical device regulators since then.
Link to Timeline
Stryker MITCH TRH Modular Head and Cup
Stryker have issued a hazard alert to surgeons to inform them to contact
all of their patients with MITCH TRH modular head and cup implanted in
combination with the Accolade femoral stem.
Link to Stryker MITCH
information
Management of Patients with Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants
Medsafe and the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA) (www.NZOA.org.nz)
support the advice to healthcare professionals issued by the UK Medicines and
Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on the management of patients
implanted with metal on metal hip replacements.
Link to Management of
Patient information
Page last updated 2 November 2012