5 patients at Cape hospital at risk for rare brain disease, September 06, 2013

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5 patients at Cape hospital at risk for rare brain disease, September 06, 2013

10-01-2014, 06:17 PM

Five patients at Cape Cod Hospital may have been exposed to a rare, deadly brain disease during spinal surgery performed with a potentially contaminated instrument that was previously used at a New Hampshire hospital where patients also may have been exposed.

5 Cape Cod Hospital patients possibly exposed to brain disease - Health & wellness - The Boston Globe

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Five patients at Cape Cod Hospital may have been exposed to a rare, deadly brain disease during spinal surgery performed with a potentially contaminated instrument that was previously used at a New Hampshire hospital where patients also may have been exposed. The instrument, a needle-shaped probe used to help surgeons operate on hard-to-see structures, was used in May at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., to operate on a patient who later developed symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. That patient died last month. Cape Cod Hospital borrowed the equipment from the manufacturer, Minneapolis-based Medtronic, on June 7, hospital spokeswoman Robin Lord said. Surgeons there used it to perform spinal operations on five patients until Medtronic notified the hospital Aug. 28 that the instruments could be contaminated and must be quarantined.
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5 patients at Cape hospital at risk for rare brain disease, September 06, 2013

5 patients at Cape hospital at risk for rare brain disease, September 06, 2013