Two hospitals find “superbugs” on medical equipment
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Hartford Healthcare are the most recent hospitals to find “superbugs” on medical devices known as duodenoscopes, NBC News reports.
Earlier, UCLA’s hospital blamed duodenoscopes for contributing to two deaths associated with drug-resistant bacteria.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.