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(Chest. 1977;71:52-54.)
© 1977 American College of Chest Physicians

Absence of Clinical Pneumonia following Bronchoscopy with Contaminated and Clean Bronchofiberscopes

Paul M. Suratt M.D.1; Brian Gruber 1; Harry A. Wellons M.D.1; and Richard P. Wenzel M.D.1

1 From the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville

Two hundred forty-nine fiberoptic bronchoscopy procedures were surveyed for the presence of bronchoscopy-related pneumonia. The first 103 procedures were performed during a period when the fiberscope was presumably contaminated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Chart review of these 103 procedures and prospective epidemiologic surveillance of the remaining 146 procedures revealed no cases of bronchoscopy-related pneumonia.






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