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Suction Regulators: A Potential Vector for Hospital-Acquired Pathogens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Keith S. Kaye,
Dror Marchaim,
Chester Smialowicz and
Lauren Bentley
Keith S. Kaye*
Affiliation:
Detroit Medical Center and, Wayne State University Health Center, Detroit, Michigan
Dror Marchaim
Affiliation:
Detroit Medical Center and, Wayne State University Health Center, Detroit, Michigan
Chester Smialowicz
Affiliation:
Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey
Lauren Bentley
Affiliation:
Boehringer Laboratories, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
*
Infection Prevention, Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship, Detroit Medical Center, University Health Center, 4201 Saint Antoine, Suite 2B, Box 331, Detroit, MI 48201 (KKaye@dmc.org)
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The role of suction regulators in nosocomial infections has, to our knowledge, not been studied. A sampling of devices used in hospitals was conducted. Many regulators (173 [37%] of 470) were found to be colonized. A suction circuit model revealed that pathogens can disseminate throughout the circuit (retrograde and antegrade), colonizing an experimental patient stomach.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 7 , July 2010, pp. 772 - 774
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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