“I’m [making] $13 an hour, and I’ve got the surgeon who built the hospital screaming at me. What am I going to do?”
When most people think about the staff that keeps them off death’s door during a visit to the hospital or doctor’s office, they think of doctors, nurses, and other well-compensated medical professionals. We take solace in knowing that our doctors went to school for years and have incomes well into six- or seven-figures. Their high incomes are, in ...
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The family of a 41-year-old patient who died in January at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is suing the company responsible for making the duodenoscope that caused the deadly infection. The family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Olympus Corp. in Los Angeles County Superior Court. According to the lawsuit, the patient was exposed to a contaminated Olympus duodenoscope during multiple operations at the end ...
Olympus America, maker of the contaminated duodenoscopes allegedly responsible for the recent “superbug” outbreaks at two LA hospitals, has released new cleaning instructions for its product. Olympus sent out the updated guidelines to hospitals on March 26, and is urging customers to begin using them immediately. They call for the use of a smaller cleaning brush and include additional steps to flush out debris and ...
Four patients have acquired infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to an article by the Science Times. The discovery comes two weeks after two patients died and an unknown number were infected at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. All six patients were likely infected by contaminated duodenoscopes.
The hospital-acquired infections were reportedly caused by the same “superbug” that broke out ...
continue reading...Scientists at the Ronald Reagan UCLA medical center have identified an antibiotic-resistant bacteria that contributed to the deaths of two patients and may have infected 179 more, an LA Times article reports. The infection is believed to have been transmitted when patients were exposed to infected medical devices during a complex endoscopy procedure involving contaminated duodenoscopes.
Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of gut-dwelling bacteria ...
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The FDA will enforce stricter guidelines for reusable medical instruments in an attempt to reduce the spread of hospital-acquired infections, the AP reports. Federal health officials hope to prevent more hospital-based outbreaks like those that occurred recently at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA.
Although the FDA began working on the new guidelines in 2011, it has accelerated its pace due to the ...
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