{"id":26952,"date":"2017-06-15T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/?p=26952"},"modified":"2017-06-19T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:18:38","slug":"every-1-3-heater-cooler-units-used-surgeries-found-contaminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/every-1-3-heater-cooler-units-used-surgeries-found-contaminated\/","title":{"rendered":"1 In 3 Heater-Cooler Units Used In Surgeries Found To Be Contaminated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26960 size-full\" title=\"1 In 3 Heater-Cooler Units Used In Surgeries Found To Be Contaminated!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rsz_shutterstock_364007411.jpg\" alt=\"1 In 3 Heater-Cooler Units Used In Surgeries Found To Be Contaminated!\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The heater cooler devices used in open heart surgeries found to be contaminated with bacteria, a recent study reveals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-In a recent study, analyzed about 89 heater-cooler units in 23 hospitals in Canada and the United States between 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>-Heater cooler units are the devices used in the open heart surgeries in hospitals. These devices are rigged with water tanks that help to regulate the patients&#8217; temperature during a surgery.<\/p>\n<p>-Statistics from the study revealed that a total of 33 units of 89 heater cooler units (37%) tested for positive bacteria (<em>M. chimaera<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>-As per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on a global scale, close to 100 heart surgeries have been identified with <em>M. chimaera<\/em>\u00a0infection.<\/p>\n<p>-Findings were presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rsz_shutterstock_364007411.jpg\" alt=\"1 In 3 Heater-Cooler Units Used In Surgeries Found To Be Contaminated\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,75,77],"class_list":["post-26952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mg-news","tag-anti-infectives","tag-cardiac","tag-cardiovascular-disorders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>1 In 3 Heater-Cooler Units Used In Surgeries Found To Be Contaminated! 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