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

From: Healthcare Purchasing News | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: Muscarella, Lawrence F. | Copyright information

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").

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