Heater Cooler Devices: What the Studies Suggest
APIC Research According to new research presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), 37 percent of heater-cooler units assessed between July 2015 and December 2016 tested positive for Mycobacterium chimaera, a bacterium associated with fatal infections in open-heart surgery patients. The research presented by John Rihs, VP of Laboratory Services…