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Heater-Cooler Devices Hershey Medical Center Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania LivaNova (formerly Sorin Group) Mycobacterium abscessus Mycobacterium chimaera PENN Medicine Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Terumo Wellspan York Hospital

A Philadelphia Hospital Links Mycobacterial Infections to a Heater-Cooler Device The hospital has notified hundreds of patients of the infection risk.

January 18, 2017 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

January 26, 2017 — The Philadelphia Inquirer reported last September that Philadelphia’s Penn Presbyterian Medical Center had diagnosed mycobacterial infections in three patients who had undergone cardiac surgery using a…

CardioQuip Cincinnati Sub Zero Greenville Memorial Hospital Heater-Cooler Devices Hershey Medical Center Legionella LivaNova (formerly Sorin Group) Maquet Mycobacterium abscessus Mycobacterium chimaera PENN Medicine Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Terumo University of Washington Medical Center Wellspan York Hospital

A Less Commonly Used Heater-Cooler Device Also Linked To Mycobacterial Infections Regulatory reports link a different heater-cooler model, one that was the subject of a consent decree, to M. abscessus infections.

January 17, 2017 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

January 17, 2017 — Two Pennsylvania hospitals in the fall of 2015 publicly linked infections of mycobacteria to the Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler device — yet a less commonly used heater-cooler…

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