The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on the UPMC Presbyterian mold situation is recommending that other hospitals not do what UPMC did, according to an article on the Post-Gazette website.
The CDC investigation is focusing on the negative pressure room that three of the four patients stayed in at UPMC Presbyterian.
“Negative-pressure rooms are recommended for isolation of patients with a suspected or confirmed airborne infectious disease; this investigation highlights how unnecessary placement of immunocompromised patients in negative pressure rooms could result in net harm and therefore should be avoided,” the CDC report said.
All three of the Presbyterian patients have died and all stayed in the only negative pressure room in its cardiothoracic intensive care unit before they became infected by a type of deadly mold called mucormycetes. None of the patients initially had an infectious disease.
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