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Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | August 16, 2016
Kramer reached out to infection-control expert Lawrence F. Muscarella, Ph.D., of LFM Healthcare Solutions, a quality consulting organization, to review the case,
according to the paper.
"It is my opinion that at least some of the hospital's patients who underwent vaginal ultrasound during the past four years may have been, and likely were, exposed to vaginal probes potentially contaminated with infectious bacteria and/or viruses, including the 'CRE' superbug, the hepatitis B and C viruses, HIV, and HPV," he stated in a press release accompanying the suit, adding, "Without screening the affected patients for disease, infection cannot be ruled out."
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Kramer said that he takes issue with the present correction plan worked out between the state and the institution.
“The biggest problem is the hospital never said they were going to tell the potential infected patients that they were potentially exposed to the risk of infection because these devices weren’t disinfected properly,
he told KRDO.
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