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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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Hundreds of open-heart surgery patients in TN could be at risk for fatal infection
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Hundreds of open-heart surgery patients in Tennessee could be at risk for a fatal infection.Hospitals have been sending letters to patients who had the surgery anytime between January 2012 to November 2016, warning them of the risk.Vanderbilt said it sent letters to 400 patients when it learned about the potential contamination of a device it used during open-heart surgery.
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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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