News tagged with 'Bronchoscopes'

The Allegheny County coroner confirmed Wednesday that a contaminated bronchoscope caused the October death of an Allegheny General Hospital patient. Earl W. Foster, 58, died October 14 from bronchopneumonia caused by a Pseudomonas bacterium that was resistant to antibiotics. Physicians at the hospital reported that t

Japan's Olympus Optical Co. has announced another recall of more than 14,000 bronchoscopes. The decision comes less than two days after Johns Hopkins Hospital informed 415 patients that bronchoscopes made by Olympus' subsidiary, New York-based Olympus America, may have given them a rare, but fatal, lung infection. Ho