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Contaminated machines linked to heart surgery infections
Contaminated machines linked to heart surgery infections
Health officials are warning that small outbreaks of infections spread by contaminated operating room machinery during open-heart surgery could be more widespread than first thought.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerted doctors and hospitals on Thursday.The contamination has been tied to 28 cases in the U.S., including at least four who died - though it's not certain that the bacterial infection caused those deaths.But officials think hundreds or thousands of other patients could also have been infected.The outbreaks have been tracked to certain heater-cooler devices, which are used to keep patients' hearts cold and bodies warm during some heart operations.The manufacturer of the devices identified the contamination in its factory in Germany in 2014 and reportedly cleaned it up.But bacteria traced to the machines were linked to clusters of illnesses in Switzerland, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Michigan.Officials think the Stockert 3T machines, made by London-based LivaNova, are used in roughly half of the 250,000 cardiopulmonary bypass operations performed in the U.S. each year.They don't think infection occurred in everyone who had a surgery in which that machine was used.
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CDC warns heart patients of surgery risk from 'disastrous' bacteria
CDC warns heart patients of surgery risk from 'disastrous' bacteria
Federal health officials are warning anyone who had open heart surgery since 2011 to be on the alert for possible infection from a contaminated surgical device in wide use.In an alert issued Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a device that heats and cools blood during surgery is suspected of causing dangerous infections months or even years after surgery.In New Jersey, the N.J. Department of Health will be holding an emergency conference call later today with the 18 hospitals that perform cardiac surgery to review the CDC warning.
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Device used in open heart surgery could cause infections
Device used in open heart surgery could cause infections
Anyone who has recently undergone open heart surgery and developed symptoms of an infection should contact their doctor as soon as possible, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.The agency is warning health care providers and patients that a device commonly used during the operation could be contaminated.In the past year or so, there have been at least 28 cases in which bacteria from a specific device used in the surgery, known as a heater-cooler, matched bacteria found in patients, according to CDC spokeswoman Melissa Brower.
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