{"id":71817,"date":"2017-05-02T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71817"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:39:22","slug":"brooke-army-medical-center-closes-unsterile-operating-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71817","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Army Medical Center closes unsterile operating rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/local\/article\/Discovery-of-unsterile-tools-forces-BAMC-to-close-11109467.php?t=a47ece74fd9582d581&#038;cmpid=fb-premium\">a link to an article<\/a> about Brooke Army Medical Center closing 16 of their 28 operating rooms because &#8220;human matter&#8221; was discovered on their instruments after improper sterilization. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hospital, which has treated thousands of troops from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, did not directly say whether dirty instruments led to infections, noting that Army rules prevent such disclosure. One commander, Dr. Douglas Soderdahl, a colonel, said that \u201cthere\u2019s no concerning spikes or things going in the wrong direction\u201d regarding BAMC\u2019s medical care.<\/p>\n<p>BAMC, which disclosed the problem in an April 21 briefing with several hundred doctors and other medical personnel, wouldn\u2019t confirm the number of cases but acknowledged the sterilization problem and closure of operating rooms. A physician familiar with the meeting provided the numbers to the San Antonio Express-News and said the hospital also recorded 24 cases of improperly processed surgical sets in December and 14 in September.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you would be hard-pressed to find a facility in the U.S. that has not had that issue. Enough people die every single day because of medical errors to fill a 747,\u201d [Weston \u201cHank\u201d Balch, director of sterile processing operations at San Antonio\u2019s University Health System] said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone does it&#8221; is a perfectly acceptable excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark sends us a link to an article about Brooke Army Medical Center closing 16 of &hellip; <a title=\"Brooke Army Medical Center closes unsterile operating rooms\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71817\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brooke Army Medical Center closes unsterile operating rooms<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}