Thousands of patients may be exposed to bacterial infection caused by heater-cooler devices
Thousands of patients at two Pennsylvania hospitals may have been exposed to a bacterial infection, Penn Live reports. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said the infections were traced to heater-cooler devices that are used in open heart surgeries.
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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.