Since more than 250,000 heart bypass procedures use heater-coolers annually in the U.S., hundreds of thousands of patients could be at risk of an NTM infection from the Stöckert 3T heater-coolers.

Heater-cooler devices are used during surgeries to cool or warm patients depending on their case. The heart cooler devices forms an important part of surgeries related to lungs and heart.

More than a third of heater-cooler devices used in open heart surgery may be contaminated with deadly bacteria. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 ...

Three patients who underwent heart surgery at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia are being treated for nontuberculous mycobacterium infections contracted from contaminated heater ...

Pennsylvania Real-Time News; Pa. health official expects open heart surgery-related infections will remain rare, but has no prediction on how many might arise ...

Gentherm Medical’s Hemotherm® Model 400CE Cardiovascular Heater/Cooler Device Now Able to be Utilized for Treatment of COVID-19 Patients Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use ...

"The use of the Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA opens the way for Gentherm to provide support to healthcare professionals in treating patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19," said Phil ...