Month: July 2015

A Bronchoscope Was Linked to a ‘Superbug’ Outbreak in 2014 CRE outbreaks linked to bronchoscopes may be under-recognized.

July 21, 2015 — A bronchoscope has been linked to 14 patients who tested “positive” for CRE and pan-susceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa, according to a regulatory report filed with the FDA…

A 2015 ‘Superbug’ Outbreak in North Carolina: Were Contaminated Duodenoscopes to Blame?

June 15, 2015 — The Mountain Xpress, a local newspaper in Asheville (NC), reported earlier this week that two patients died in February at a hospital in North Carolina “from…

Greenville Health System Settles a Lawsuit Claiming Negligence Caused a Patient’s Infection, Death

July 13, 2015 — South Carolina’s Greenville Health System has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a surgical patient who died in 2014 from an unusual infection…