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An outbreak of Pseudomonas cepacia bacteremia associated with a contaminated intra-aortic balloon pump.
In January 1983, symptomatic Pseudomonas cepacia bacteremia developed in two patients in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit within 3 days after cardiac operation and insertion of an intra-aortic balloon pump. An epidemiologic and microbiologic investigation revealed that both patients required intra-aortic balloon pumping for circulatory support and that the water reservoir of the intra-aortic balloon pump (SMEC, Inc., Cookeville, Tenn.) contained more than 10(5) Pseudomonas cepacia per milliliter. This organism was also recovered from the purge button and on-off switch of the pump and from the hands of a health care worker who manipulated the water reservoir of the intra-aortic balloon pump. Agarose gel electrophoresis of lysates of Pseudomonas cepacia with rapid methods of deoxyribonucleic acid preparation revealed three identical plasmids of the Pseudomonas cepacia from the water reservoir of the intra-aortic balloon pump and from the infected patients. Transmission from the worker's hands to patients presumably occurred by inoculation of the intravascular lines during management. No additional cases of Pseudomonas cepacia bacteremia were observed after the unit was replaced with a nonwater reservior intra-aortic balloon pump. This report substantiates the ability of Pseudomonas cepacia to multiply in water and to cause epidemic bacteremia, identifies the water reservoir of the SMEC intra-aortic balloon pump as a previously unrecognized hazard for the patient requiring intra-aortic balloon pumping, and documents the value of plasmid analysis in elucidating the mode of transmission of nosocomial Pseudomonas cepacia infections.
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