In article <004501c1625b$4ac2a220$d5007ad5@p9m9m9>, Adrian Kerner
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>What about the 'donor' patient of a needle stick injury to 'recepient' A&E
>staff?
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>1) Do depts
>
>
>a) Check Hep serology.
No
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>b) Hep B, C & HIV.
No
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>c) Save for a rainy day?
No
>
>d) None of the above?
Yes
Our Occy Health dept tell me that the serology is NOT that urgent in the
recipient (I was a bit surprised about this, but didn't argue). They
organise all that the next working day. I made it perfectly clear that
A&E can have nothing to do with traipsing round the wards doing informed
consent / counselling / phlebotomy on the "donors". If anyone needs to
do this, its the ward staff, not A&E. (Obviously if the donor is an A&E
patient, then that's different). Occy health were happy with this.
Dr G Ray
A&E
Sussex
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