Hospitals that are under the United Kingdom’s National Health System (NHS) will soon stop using hip devices with failure rates higher than five percent (5%) within five years, as reported by the Telegraph newspaper on October 25, 2013. Included on the banned hip devices are the recalled Stryker metal-on-metal hip implants, the Rejuvenate and ABG II models.
According to the Telegraph report, this decision by the NHS regulators was influenced by various research studies it conducted that showed a number of problems. The early and high-failure rates of metal-on-metal hip implants were first discovered by the artificial joint registry which tracks joint replacement surgeries in England and Wales. Based on the registry’s report, failure rates even reached as high as 43 percent in some cases.
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