Hydromorphone Recall: Attorney for ETHEX Lawsuit Due to Hydromorphone Overdose

The following ETHEX hydromorphone recall information is provided by Pritzker | Olsen, P.A., a nationally-recognized law firm. Attorneys Fred Pritzker, Elliot Olsen and Eric Hageman have been named "Super Lawyers" by Law & Politics magazine (current and previous years). Fred Pritzker has also been selected for inclusion in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America. To contact a prescription error attorney at the firm regarding a ETHEX lawsuit, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free), e-mail our attorneys, or submit our free case review form.

Recent Medication Error Settlement
Pritzker | Olsen, P.A. has recently settled a wrongful death case where we alleged that the pharmacy compounded a drug to be 10 times the prescribed dose. Contact us regarding medication error lawsuits. This was not a case against ETHEX or its parent company, KV Pharmaceutical.

ETHEX Lawsuit and Strict Liability

Medication errors can happen when a pharmaceutical company manufactures tablets that are the wrong dose of the medication. When this happens and someone dies or is injured, the pharmaceutical company may be strictly liable for that death or injury. This means that the company would have to compensate the injured person or the family of the person who died if their medication error attorney can show that the product was defective and that the defect caused the injury or death. It is not necessary to prove that anyone negligently or intentionally caused the defect.

If you or a family member has been affected by the recalled ETHEX Hydromorphone, contact us about an ETHEX lawsuit.

ETHEX Hydromorphone Recall

ETHEX Corporation has recalled a single production lot of Hydromorphone HCl 2 mg tablets (Lot #90219, Exp: 03/2010; NDC #58177-0620-04), as a precaution, due to the possibility it may contain oversized tablets. Hydromorphone is a drug used for pain management and is packaged under the ETHEX label in 100-count bottles.

If someone were to take a higher than expected dose of Hydromorphone, the risk of adverse effects known to be associated with the drug may be increased, including respiratory depression (difficulty or lack of breathing), low blood pressure, and sedation. Overdose of this and other opioid analgesics can lead to death.
There are other companies in the United States producing and marketing versions of Hydromorphone HCl tablets and consumers and their caregivers are encouraged to check their prescriptions to determine the source of their tablets. Hydromorphone HCl 2 mg tablets marketed by ETHEX are a blue, round tablet with a script "E" on one side and a "2" on the other side. Hydromorphone is marketed under the brand name Dilaudid.

In addition to the above hydromorphone recall, the parent company of ETHEX Corporation, KV Pharmaceutical has advised the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that, effective midnight December 19, 2008, the company voluntarily suspended shipments of all FDA-approved drug products in tablet form. This all-inclusive suspension of distribution of prescription tablets was due to manufacturing issues “that have come to management’s attention” at KV Pharmaceutical. Read more about a KV Pharmaceutical lawsuit and the suspended ETHEX products.

Pritzker | Olsen, P.A. is a national law firm and represents people injured by defective medical products and the families of people whose deaths were caused by defective medical products.

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