{"id":89925,"date":"2016-10-25T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=89925"},"modified":"2016-10-25T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:44:32","slug":"need-know-new-deadly-heart-surgery-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/need-know-new-deadly-heart-surgery-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about those new, deadly heart-surgery infections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned open-heart surgery patients recently that they were at risk of a deadly infection linked to a medical device used during their operations. Now, worried consumers say they are having a hard time getting information from hospitals and doctors about what they should do.<\/p>\n

More than a half-million patients could have been exposed to bacteria that can cause serious illness or death. That’s the estimated number of patients who had open-chest surgery involving potentially contaminated equipment in the past several years. The bacteria are a type of nontuberculous mycobacteria, or NTM. Although infections are rare, experts are worried because patients may not develop symptoms or signs of infection for months, so diagnosis may be missed or delayed.
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