B.C. study uncovers deaths caused by medical device coatings coming loose

The deaths of at least three people who had hospital procedures in Vancouver were caused by coatings that sloughed off medical devices like catheters and scattered through blood vessels to major organs, a major study has found.
Eight local researchers studied autopsy reports of hundreds of people who died at Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital from 2010 to 2016. They identified 110 who had died within 90 days of endovascular procedures, done by threading devices like cathete