Lessons from the bronchoscope case: what happened at Allegheny General? (Operating Room).

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In March 2002, several patient infections at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore were linked by the hospital to a medical device that had been recalled several months earlier. The injuries were attributed to a defective component of a bronchoscope -- a flexible, fiber-optic device used to examine the lungs and sample their tissues -- that had become colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (referred to as "P aeruginosa").

Several national and local news sources reported this recall and outbreak. Although most were fair and objective, some of these reports were ...

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