Maggots found

*trigger warning- bugs*

Charge RN in medical ICU here- we found maggots in one of our patients mouths today and I’m wondering what the likelihood is of the eggs originating from our unit (I.e did one of these fucking flies lay eggs in our patients mouths????)

Patient admitted 6/28 for sepsis and was intubated 7/5. Maxed on 4 pressors now. ENT came to evaluate and ultimately said nothing they could do because pt is obviously too unstable for OR. But they made a comment saying that the maggots have been there for a while due to the amount of them.

Upon further research it seems like the eggs are layed and hatched with a day. So we are all paranoid that these flies on our unit actually caused this.

Does anyone have any experience with this?