New Information Released about Dr Kaplan

ALERT: NEW INFORMATION RELEASED ABOUT CONTAMINATED PROSTATE BIOPSY MEDICAL DEVICES AT DR. KAPLAN”S OFFICE

March 16, 2011

Dear Clients and friends of Christensen Law Offices,

More information has been released about the use of contaminated medical devices at Dr. Kaplan’s urology clinic. Read our post yesterday for more information on this extremely disturbing news. On Tuesday March 17, 2011 public health officials announced that they had obtained Dr. Kaplan’s patient records and were working on identifying patients put at risk by Dr. Kaplan’s practices for notification. Currently the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners and the Health District are targeting patients who had liver biopsies performed between Dec. 20, 2010, to March 11, 2011.

The Health District has revealed that the single-use-only medical devices that where reused at Dr. Kaplan’s office are single-use-only plastic “needle guides” used during some of the biopsies he had performed. These guides are meant to be used once on one patient and then disposed of. As of yet the Health District has not announced whether they have identified any infectious diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis C having been transmitted but they continue to work to communicate the risks and get testing for the group they have identified as at risk.