{"id":712,"date":"2012-02-22T23:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T23:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:06:45","slug":"today-investigates-dirty-surgical-instruments-a-problem-in-the-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"TODAY Investigates: Dirty surgical instruments a problem in the OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Stacey Naggiar and Kerri Zimmer\u00a0 NBC News\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>A new report suggests doctors across the country are using surgical tools contaminated with blood and other debris and because the FDA doesn&#8217;t require hospitals to report it, many incidents are unknown. NBC&#8217;s chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports. <a href=\"http:\/\/todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/02\/22\/10471434-today-investigates-dirty-surgical-instruments-a-problem-in-the-or\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stacey Naggiar and Kerri Zimmer\u00a0 NBC News\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A new report suggests doctors across the country are using surgical tools contaminated with blood and other debris and because the FDA doesn&#8217;t <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=712\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[151,147,150,123,152,149,148],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-advanced-medical-technology-association","tag-center-for-public-integrity","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-hai","tag-healthcare-aquired-infections","tag-reusable-medical-devices","tag-sterile-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}