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Mass General and others called to task re:g i infections

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and being investigated by FDA and others regarding risk, harm, and death to patients, including due to contaminated duodenoscopes and other medical devices, from this morning's Boston Globe.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/27/mass-hospitals-faulted-for-failing-report-patient-deaths-and-injuries/puywidtltLEL66VqTewqOP/story.html


"Federal regulators have faulted three large Massachusetts hospitals, along with a dozen more nationwide, for failing to properly report patient deaths and injuries that may have been caused by medical devices — part of a renewed effort to detect problems before they cause widespread harm.

Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s, and UMass Memorial were among 17 hospitals inspected last December by the FDA. Regulators were concerned about infections possibly linked to contaminated instruments called duodenoscopes, used to examine the small intestine, and about the spread of uterine cancer when a surgical device called a power morcellator, which cuts up tissue, is used."

"The FDA findings at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester included failure to report infections in patients who had undergone a procedure with a duodenoscope. Three of those patients later died, but two of the patients had complicated illnesses, the FDA report said."

"Dr. Dominic Nompleggi, chief of gastroenterology at UMass Memorial, said 14 patients developed infections. But he said the hospital was never able to find the same bacteria on the scopes, and therefore could not definitively link them to the infections. He said UMass Memorial reported the cases to Massachusetts public health officials but did not believe it also had to tell the FDA."

Now, wouldn't Mass General be a lovely strategic install of the VP4 to announce one of these days?