Comments on: ZymoGenetics Plays Hardball, Asks FDA to Pull Competing Drug Off Market Because of Safety http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/08/20/zymogenetics-plays-hardball-asks-fda-to-pull-competing-drug-off-market-because-of-safety/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Oliver Ochs http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/08/20/zymogenetics-plays-hardball-asks-fda-to-pull-competing-drug-off-market-because-of-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-76286 Oliver Ochs Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:59:29 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=38324#comment-76286 Interesting in that it's a superior product and not much more expensive ($90 for recothromb versus $70 for the bovine product at my institution). We've switched for all perivascular needle procedures in our department but the hospital still uses the bovine product in open surgery. I don't see how the admittedly small risk of limb loss and death don't warrent the small extra cost. I think the biggest factor is physician ignorance that bovine thrombin may have systemic or regional effect when administered locally. Interesting in that it’s a superior product and not much more expensive ($90 for recothromb versus $70 for the bovine product at my institution). We’ve switched for all perivascular needle procedures in our department but the hospital still uses the bovine product in open surgery. I don’t see how the admittedly small risk of limb loss and death don’t warrent the small extra cost. I think the biggest factor is physician ignorance that bovine thrombin may have systemic or regional effect when administered locally.

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