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Hundreds of patients who visited hospitals in Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to potentially life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV , as an anesthesiologist may not have followed the proper procedures while administering anesthetic drugs, health officials say. Providence and Legacy Health announced in separate statements that more than 2,400 patients in total could be exposed and are in the process of being notified. They encouraged people to get a free blood test from the non-profit hospital systems in order to screen for possible infections.
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) said that investigations into the breach centered around a physician who delivered intravenous anesthesia — injecting anesthetic drugs into a patient's vein to put them to sleep — and employed "unacceptable infection control practices, which put patients at risk of infections." The exact details about how the procedures were not followed have not been revealed. US PEDIATRICIANS GROUP REVERSES DECADES-OLD POLICY, ALLOWING BREASTFEEDING FOR THOSE WITH HIV Hundreds of patients who visited hospitals in Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, health officials have warned, as an anesthesiologist may not have followed the proper procedures, officials said.
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