Antibiotic-resistant bacteria strikes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center following endoscopy procedure that used infected medical devices
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria could have infected at least 179 patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and were a “contributing factor” in the deaths of two, after patients underwent a complex endoscopy procedure with infected medical devices, several media outlets reported.
“We notified all patients who had this type of procedure, and we were using seven different scopes. Only two of them were found to be infected. In an abundance of caution, we notified everybody,” university spokesperson Dale Tate told the Associated Press and NPR News in statements.
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