hiv patient uses a syringe for blooddraw & nurse uses syringe on a non-hiv will the result come back positive?

Question

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=7991, she went to this hospital

Answer 1

http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1992/AD921665.html

yes if the person is hiv that use the syringe the first time without cleaning it and stuff...

that above website is a link about how people were mistakely redrawned blood and somewhat

hope this gives you some closure

Answer 2

it is going to look on an HIV try in the event that they're beneficial for the virus. HIV does not appear beneficial on a try for 2 weeks to six months. I artwork in a hospital and that i've got not at all heard of this. I do in my opinion understand some nurses who've been by twist of fate caught with a needle they used on a HIV+ or a available HIV+ affected person nonetheless. They at recent initiate taking HIV drugs. I certainly have not at all heard of a affected person getting caught with a used needle or syringe nonetheless. no longer in straightforward terms is that thoroughly unsterile even nonetheless it is likewise unlawful. they'd desire to apply a clean syringe and needle every time. as quickly as I make IV bags for sufferers I probable circulate by 50 or greater syringes and needles a evening. you could no longer use them yet back.

Answer 3

First of all. These things do happen. Just because they "shouldn't" "it's not allowed" or you can't get your head round it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. So I don't see why you guys bothered posting.

Example: "Since 1989, at least three hospital patients have been injected with HIV as a result of negligence among health-care workers who improperly handled contaminated needles, according to the Centers for Disease Control."

To those posting links, they aren't working because you're putting a comma straight after them. See here and here:
http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1992/AD921665.html
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=7991

The hospital for those who don't know is - Caldecot Sexual Health Centre in south London.
But from this webpage it looks like it's all rumours, although if such a thing happened it would be very likely to pass it on. That's why they take so many precautions.

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Milton Hanson, who alleged the NHS?was guilty of institutional racism, has died aged 57

Hanson appeared live on radio three years ago claiming that black patients may have been deliberately infected with HIV by hospital staff. The hospital said Hanson’s “serious and unfounded” allegations were the reasons for his dismissal.

Following his dismissal, Hanson was locked in a legal brawl with King’s College Hospital but lost the two cases he brought against them.

Kenny Williams – who represented him at one of the tribunal hearings – told The Voice that Hanson lost on the grounds of insufficient evidence. “None of his colleagues were willing to back him and so the allegations could not be proved.”

Hanson was a registered nurse with the NHS for more than 30 years, with specialist skills in sexual health.

While in Jamaica, Hanson continued his campaign to expose what he perceived to be racism in the NHS.

Dr Green said that his organisation would soon establish The Milton Hanson Movement Against Racial Terrorism, as part of Hanson’s legacy.
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Answer 4

I took a look at the link you put up and I can't see what you're referring to.

But yes, any situation involving a shared needle between someone who is HIV+ and someone who isn't carries a sizable risk that the disease will be passed.

However - as someone has already pointed out, I'd be very surprised if any qualified nurse could be so ridiculously careless, unless there has been a very unfortunate set of circumstances leading up to a mistake like that being made.

Answer 5

No one that works in the hospital department reuses syringes even if the patient did not have hiv. Its unethical and if there is proof of incompetence then it should be reported only if the nurse was seeen to reusing the syringe

Answer 6

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Answer 7

First off that'll never happen because a competent nurse wouldnt re-use a syringe or needle....that is medically unethical....and if they did and got caught they need to lose their nursing license

Answer 8

That wouldn't happen because they don't let "SPECIAL" people become nurses but if the nurse were to do that it could come back positive or negative no test is 100% reliable

Answer 9

Have your friend get re-tested somewhere else. And if she saw or has any evidence of reusing needles, she should report it. But I doubt that the nurse reused a needle.

Answer 10

This is why they say you have a very good chance at catching a STD though intravenous drug use, such as Hep or HIV.