I have a very serious question regarding blood draws with syringes. I have had my blood drawn several times before but never really made a big deal out of it until I heard a friend of mine saying that he always pays attention and sees if the nurse is opening a new syringe in front of him...I never paid attention before to this thing which I guess was very stupid of me !
Now to my question...how do they make sure they dont make the mistake of re-using the syringe...I mean the mistake can be so easily done..the nurse uses the syringe, transfers the blood to the test tube, recaps the empty syringe, and then without paying attention put the syringe on the table instead of putting it in the disposer....and then, when the next patient comes, the nurse uses the same syringe on him...
how do u guys make sure u dont make this mistake ! I mean it is sooooooooo doable....
I am freaked out !
2007-02-12 00:31:18 · 5 answers · asked by Ahlan D 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
NO need to freak out. think about it, if a syringe were used to draw blood it would still show red in it instead of being clean and free of blood so i think that would be noticable with the bare eye, and i doubt highly anyone in the medical profession would go thru the trouble to one take the needle of and wash a syringe out to reuse it instead of tossing it and taking out a new one. think about it it would mean nurses, lab techs and dr would come in contact with the blodd of thousands of ppl, they would NOT risk their own heatlh and go thru the infection progress like that. your friend is trying to freak u out and it sure sounds like he's got u worried. if u calm down and think about it logically u will figure it out that he makes NO sense at all.
2007-02-12 00:43:52 · answer #1 · answered by germanygirl_us 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disposable syringes are packed in sterile packages. It's lab's/hospital's sterile routine to use a packed disposable sterile syringe so there is no way a nurse or a lab technician just picks up a syringe that's lying on the table.
2007-02-12 00:48:07 · answer #2 · answered by lanisoderberg69 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maximum hospitals and clinics have human being wrapped syringes and would not in any respect go away a needle or syringe on a mattress, chair or everywhere else, it would cost you dissimilar difficulty. There are protocols that each and each and every medical workers has to flow through to eliminate products which have blood or any human waste on it. we ought to flow through those guidelines that is the regulation. you have become freaked out over some thing which will not in any respect take position. we are no longer allowed to recap, till you need to do it with a one handed scoop, once a needle and syringe are used they bypass immediately in the container made for them. till you paintings in a health center or hospital you does no longer understand that there is each and every precaution taken to guard the nurse and her affected individual. this stuff are suggested as conventional Precautions and all medical paintings force makes use of them and knows them through heart, its our second epidermis.
2016-12-04 02:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many times are you going to ask this same question. Dozens of people have answered you, including many lab techs and nurses but still you continue asking. Do you WANT us to say that we deliberately poke people with dirty needles???
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If you're that paranoid, why don't you bring your own needles or better yet, go to phlebotomy school and draw your own blood right there in the lab.
2007-02-12 06:00:40 · answer #4 · answered by BabyRN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they throw it in the bin. Stop being paranoid
2007-02-12 00:50:43 · answer #5 · answered by holly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋