Needlestick Poll (ref. from AIDS thread)

[atomi]

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For those who have been on clinical rotations...

 

[Jwax]

For those who have been on clinical rotations...

Oops I answered no but I'm still 2nd year.

 

[lazycat]

For those who have been on clinical rotations...

why dont you think the fifth case : some one has incurred needlesticks injury but they dont know they have contracted or not ???
some one told me he has stuck so many times in OR or ED that he didnt want to take HIV test, he just toke a CBC each 3 months to check the CD4 level !!that's so hazardous !!!

 

[DocPsychosis]

why dont you think the fifth case : some one has incurred needlesticks injury but they dont know they have contracted or not ???
some one told me he has stuck so many times in OR or ED that he didnt want to take HIV test, he just toke a CBC each 3 months to check the CD4 level !!that's so hazardous !!!

Ongoing HAART prophylaxis. 🙄

Also, !!??!!??

 

[Flopotomist]

why dont you think the fifth case : some one has incurred needlesticks injury but they dont know they have contracted or not ???
some one told me he has stuck so many times in OR or ED that he didnt want to take HIV test, he just toke a CBC each 3 months to check the CD4 level !!that's so hazardous !!!

CBC for CD4??

 

[lazycat]

CBC for CD4??

CBC for lymphocyte and than CD4 if he thinks its needed !

 

[ZagDoc]

You do realize you're going to get a bunch of people putting option 4 because they think its "funny"?

 

[atomi]

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[smq123]

CBC for lymphocyte and than CD4 if he thinks its needed !

😕 Huh? That STILL doesn't make any sense.

Given that statistically there should be 10-100 more times people who check hepb/hepc than the HIV one, and there are currently 4 HIV+ votes and 0 hepb/hepc votes, I think it's safe to discount all of those.

yeah, HIV, ha ha ha, so funny!

I think what Zagdoc meant is that not a lot of people are going to take this poll seriously. Seroconversions after needlesticks are SO rare, do you really think that you're going to find anyone who answers this poll in the affirmative?

And the main people who really, seriously worry about this are the ones who haven't been on rotations yet, or haven't started med school yet. It's something to be careful about, not something to worry about.

 

[Conky]

Never. I'm so neurotic and OCD that I'm insanely careful about needle safety, even in after call days when I'm dead-shot tired.

I did once as a med student have a hand that recently got a cut by opening some medicine or something touch someone's dry hair that was stained in blood. The cut however was very shallow and the hair was almost completely dried. So far I haven't manifested symptoms of Hep C or HIV. It's insanely rare for me to get colds.

Hey guys,

I was thinking about making a post on this, but I'll just reply here. I work as an aide in a hospital and was attacked by a patient gone wild yesterday. I have a light scratch on my head (it is pinkish red, it didn't bleed, but it stings). The patient has hep C. Can the virus live in whatever dried secretions were on the patients hands for an extended period of time? Should I be worried?