[Question #10711] Bloddy gloves , should I worry?
20 months ago
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Dear doctors,I am in my
6 month of pregnancy. Two weeks ago I had my glucose tolerance test, I had
a visit at an ambulatory where they screen pregnant woman for diabetes. We were
5 pregnant woman, and the nurse took our glucose at fasting and than 60 and 120
min after glucose load. The nurse put to all of us an i.v. canal, from which
she drow blood every time.I was the last in the row of blood drowing. When she
attempted to do the last blood drow from my i.v. canal I noticed that she had
some blood on her gloves. I assumed it could be from the previous patient,
because I was not careful to see if she changed gloves before me and I did not
notice that that blood was mine. It was like 1 cm of a bloody spot. With this
glove on she took care of my i.v. canal, drow the blood from my vein and then
flushed the canal with the saline, because the canal would have to remain in
place until the end. Between mine blood drow and the previous one she had a
telephone talk that lasted a couple of minutes, and also the preparing took a
couple of minutes, so this event must have been at least 5 min after the other
last patient.It was a nice and clean ambulatory, I live in a country where the
prevalence of HIV is not particularly high and all the
pregnant woman are screened for HIV at the beggining of pregnancy, the OGTT
test is in 27 week of pregnancy. That day there was also another patient that
was an old gentleman.My concern is, that the nurse touched the opening of my iv
canal with the bloody glove and after that flushed the saline inside the vein,
which could put me at risk for catching for example HIV.I am at risk?
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
20 months ago
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20 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
20 months ago
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20 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
20 months ago
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