[Question #3624] Nurse did bad blood drawn, potential exposure?
88 months ago
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My wife and I went for our annual blood work, before we entered the nurse had already prepared the needle to the vacutainer holder, we kindly asked her to change it so we can see it was new, I saw that the vacutainer holder had blood spills on it (looked like dried) so when changing the needle the nurse touched those spills with her bare hand, then proceed to touch my wife’s arm puncture site to recheck for the vein (without cleaning the area) and proceed to draw! so we don’t know if whatever she touched could be transferred to my wife’s skin and then pushed trough the needle to direct blood flow.
That same day I overheard a nurse saying they had to discard a donor because of hiv! What if it was that person’s blood spills that the nurse touched? We didn’t see anyone entering before my wife, but we don’t know from earlier that morning.
The room in there was very cold with air conditioning on and I don’t know if this can preserve more the viruses.
My wife never developed symptoms but a month later I saw that a wart she had on her toe started to grow a lot (she said she scratched it), its still there; and after 2 months she had a bad UTI for the first time in her life after we had sex, and it was not responding to treatment (3 rounds of the same antibiotic) it finally cleared with natural remedies; I also noticed she is bruising easily now.
I need your expert guidance to know that my wife was not put at risk and that we can resume to have unprotected sex to have a new baby!
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
88 months ago
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88 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
88 months ago
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88 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
88 months ago
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88 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
88 months ago
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