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Article: Medical Devices Safe, But Could Be Safer With Better Regulation, Say Johns Hopkins Experts.
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- January 15, 2003
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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BALTIMORE, Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins infection control experts who last year traced the source of a bacterial infection in 32 patients to three defective bronchoscopes say more rigorous regulation and faster recall of the devices may have prevented the outbreak.
"The regulation of devices used for medical procedures should be as rigorous as the regulation of drugs prescribed by doctors," said Arjun Srinivasan, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins.
In the Jan. 16, 2003, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Srinivasan and colleagues report that between June ...