Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNearly 450 hospital patients in Massachusetts could have been exposed to hepatitis and HIVwww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down12cross-posted to: health@lemmy.world
arrow-up1143arrow-down1external-linkNearly 450 hospital patients in Massachusetts could have been exposed to hepatitis and HIVwww.livescience.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: health@lemmy.world
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoWell it wasn’t a reused needle or bad blood. I wonder what it ended up being.
minus-squareEarthwormjim91@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoSounds like a syringe being reused.
minus-squareEarthwormjim91@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoSince it’s IV medication given before/during an endoscopy, I’d guess it’s the syringe used to flush the IV line. Not the same one 450 times, but an employee using the same one for multiple patients in a day, then tossing it instead of using a new one for each.
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agounbridled pharmacy rage
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIt says it was something used to administer the anesthesic, but I don’t know anything about that either.
Well it wasn’t a reused needle or bad blood. I wonder what it ended up being.
Sounds like a syringe being reused.
450 times?!
Since it’s IV medication given before/during an endoscopy, I’d guess it’s the syringe used to flush the IV line.
Not the same one 450 times, but an employee using the same one for multiple patients in a day, then tossing it instead of using a new one for each.
MY TURN!
unbridled pharmacy rage
It says it was something used to administer the anesthesic, but I don’t know anything about that either.