Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoNearly 450 hospital patients in Massachusetts could have been exposed to hepatitis and HIVwww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down12
arrow-up1145arrow-down1external-linkNearly 450 hospital patients in Massachusetts could have been exposed to hepatitis and HIVwww.livescience.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·11 months agoWell it wasn’t a reused needle or bad blood. I wonder what it ended up being.
minus-squareEarthwormjim91@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoSounds like a syringe being reused.
minus-squareEarthwormjim91@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months 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-down1·11 months agounbridled pharmacy rage
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-211 months 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.