Four patients were infected by the deadly bacteria at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, with a total of 71 potentially exposed, officials said Wednesday. The announcement came about 2 weeks after seven patients at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center were infected via specialized scopes.
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The patients were treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, with a total 71 others potentially exposed from the contaminated duodenoscope, hospital officials said in a statement.
The announcement comes roughly two weeks after seven patients were found to be infected by the strongly-drug resistant bacteria — with nearly 180 others exposed — at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center.
The same scope was used on the exposed patients between August 2014 and January 2015, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said.
The infections occurred "despite the fact that Cedars-Sinai meticulously followed the disinfection procedure for duodenoscopes recommended in instructions provided by the manufacturer (Olympus Corporation) and the FDA," the hospital added.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is the latest hospital in the U.S. to deal the deadly bacteria infection as a result of the contaminated scopes, which also prompted the FDA to warn hospitals to take additional procedures to prevent exposure.
One of the four patients identified by the hospital has since died, but was found to have died from an underlying disease and not the infection, the statement read. The infection had already cleared.
The hospital also said they have adopted additional measures due to the "potential insufficiencies of the manufacturer's disinfection instructions," including microscopic analysis of duodenoscopes in use and "high-level disinfection."
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
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