The customer reports, six days after an upper gi endoscopy with peg-tube placement (for nutritional support) using an evis exera ii gastrointestinal videoscope, candida auris was identified in the patient¿s blood culture.
The customer could not report how the infection was treated, as the patient had already been discharged to home with hospice care.
The patient was not placed on hospice care due to the infection, but rather due to underlying pathology/co-morbidities.
The patient¿s current condition was reproted as ¿assumed death¿, although this could not be verified by the customer and no date of death could be provided.
The patient did not have diagnosed urosepsis on admission.
It is unknown if the patient was colonized with an organism prior to the procedure.
Routine testing for candida auris is not currently conducted at the facility.
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