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Resistant Bacterial Infection Outbreak At California Hospital
puddingebola writes From the article: "A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics has infected seven patients, including two who died, and more than 160 others were exposed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center through contaminated medical instruments, the hospital revealed. The drug-resistant superbug known as CRE was likely transmitted to the Los Angeles patients by contaminated medical scopes during endoscopic procedures that took place between October 2014 and January 2015, a university statement said. " UCLA says the infections occurred via contaminated endoscopes that were sterilized according to the manufacturer's specifications.
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Previous comment makes sense because the hospital was named for Reagan. Your comment is just dumb and off-topic.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
But, in fact, the system works. Nothing is going to be foolproof or fail safe. There will always be screw ups or just procedures that don't fix everything. However, it is telling that the hospital's surveillance systems figured out what the problem was, identified the patients at risk and presumably stopped the 'outbreak'. 32 patients, although it sounds like a lot, is probably just a couple of days worth of scopes at a big institution.
Although not clearly delineated in TFA, it appears that the problematic instruments were endoscopes used in ERCP procedures. These particular devices are at high risk of contamination due to their complex design.
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I'm seriously regretting any anti-bacterial soap I've used over the years right about now.
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And the final irony? If Ronald Reagan ran for President today, he would be kicked out of the GOP today for being too liberal.
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You have no idea what you are talking about. When RR took office, the prime interest rate was over 20%, mortgage rates were about 18%, inflation was running at 13%, there were long lines to buy gasoline and the cost of heating skyrocketed. By the time he left office in 1989, 18 million new jobs had been created, inflation was cut to 4%, interest rates were cut in half, the Federal Registry of regulations had half the number of pages, and the Iron Curtain had come down. Reagan freed millions people from tyranny. He was a hero.