The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising hospitals to notify patients who underwent open-heart (open-chest) surgery involving a Stöckert 3T heater-cooler that the device was potentially contaminated, possibly putting patients at risk for a life threatening infection.
New information indicates that these devices, manufactured by LivaNova PLC (formerly Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH), were likely contaminated with the rare bacteria Mycobacterium chimaera during manufacturing.
Lensey Scott, MD, a Conway interventional cardiologist, has joined the Conway Regional Cardiovascular Clinic.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Chancellor Dan Rahn, MD, and Robert Hopkins Jr., MD, in the UAMS College of Medicine have been awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists.
Richard Turnage, MD, has been named vice chancellor for clinical programs for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and CEO of UAMS Medical Center, effective Dec. 1. He succeeds Roxane Townsend, MD, who left UAMS at the end of September.
Grace L. Raja, MD, has joined the CARTI medical staff as a hematologist/oncologist, according to Jan Burford, CARTI president and chief executive officer.