Discussions in Infection Control

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Category: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Audits Automated Endoscope Reprocessors Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Carbapenems Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) GI Endoscopes Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase]-producing K. pneumoniae NDM-producing E. coli Outbreak Investigations Pseudomonas aeruginosa

At Least Seven Deaths Linked to GI Endoscopes in Seattle, Washington

December 24, 2014 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

“The article that started a national discussion.“ December 5, 2014 — Federal health officials recently attributed a deadly “superbug” outbreak at a hospital near Chicago (IL), in 2013, to the…

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Bronchoscopes Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Cystoscopes Device Recalls Endoscope Sampling Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) FUJIFILM Klebsiella pneumoniae Olympus Outbreak Investigations Pentax Superbugs University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Superbugs, Contaminated Gastrointestinal Endoscopes, and a Growing Number of Hospital Infections: Is an FDA Action Imminent?

December 2, 2014 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

December 2, 2014 — Two superbug outbreaks of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae were recently linked to contaminated gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopes. These “nightmarish” bacteria are often abbreviated as CRE. These two outbreaks were…

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Risk of Transmission of Superbugs during Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

October 16, 2014 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

Click here (PDF format) or here (HTML format) to read Dr. Muscarella’s “Risk of transmission of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and related ‘superbugs’ during gastrointestinal endoscopy” (World J Gastrointest Endosc 2014; 6(10):457-474.)…

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