More than 3000 southern Florida veterans are being called in for infectious disease testing after tubing on colonoscopy equipment was found to be improperly sterilized.
This follows a similar colonoscopy problem in another region, and another recent problem with ear-nose-throat equipment.
The care standards for these procedures are quite well known, and the number of exposures indicates a serious management problem (as opposed to a batch or two of sterilization problems, which can happen).
Odds of infection should be low, but low is too high for those infected.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
To what do you attribute these problems?
Post a Comment