Are the medical devices that your doctor is using on you safe? For time to time, medical devices are found to be defective and recalled by the company that manufactures them. This was the case in December, when eV3 Inc. recalled a TrailBlazer Support Catheter after several health professionals reported cracks in the medical devices. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a voluntary recall of the 350 defective catheters from 28 different locations in order to prevent any defective medical device incidents or defective medical device injuries.

As of January 6, 2010, eV3 has declared that it has in its possession all of the defective TrailBlazer Support Catheters and that none of the other products the company makes were safe. The company released a redesigned, non-defective TrailBlazer Support Catheter that was released in December and which has not been reported to be problematic.