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Hospitals alerting patients of infection risk
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Heart surgery patients across the nation are finding out they could have been exposed to infection-causing bacteria.The source is a specific machine used at hospitals during bypass procedures.According to the CDC, the risk of infection is relatively low, but there is enough of a risk linked to a specific machine that area hospitals are now alerting patients.
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Thousands of Indiana heart-surgery patients at risk of dangerous infection
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INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - 13 Investigates has learned at least a dozen Indiana hospitals are now sending warning letters to more than 8,000 open heart surgery patients to warn them they may be at risk of a life-threatening infection linked to a medical device used during their operation.Among the notifications: IU Health says in the next few weeks, it will be sending letters to 6,500 patients who were hooked up to a Stockert 3T heater-cooler, a device commonly used to heat and cool a patient's blood during a heart surgery.The Roudebush VA Medical Center tells WTHR it recently sent warning letters to 430 patients on whom it used the device.
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Hospitals warn heart patients of infection risk
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Schematics for how a heater-cooler unit works.(Photo: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Several Central Indiana hospitals are warning thousands of open-heart-surgery patients about a risk of infection linked to a medical device used during the procedure.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning in October that some LivaNova Stöckert 3T heater-coolers may have been contaminated during manufacturing, putting patients at risk of life-threatening infections.
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