Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Nov 14;75(10):1838-1840. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac379.
We report on probable factory-based contamination of portable water heaters with waterborne pathogens and 2 bloodstream infections potentially attributable to off-label use of these water heaters to warm extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuits. Great caution is warranted when using water-based devices to care for critically ill patients.
我们报告了可能在工厂生产过程中导致便携式热水器受到水源性病原体污染的情况,并且有两起血液感染病例可能与这些热水器被违规用于加热体外膜肺氧合回路有关。在使用水基设备为重症患者进行护理时,需要高度谨慎。