Is this considered exposure?

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I had an HIV patient who's new dialysis catheter bled out all afternoon. We held pressure for 2 hours until we could get FFP's in him.. Well anyways one of the nurses got some blood on her shirt and a little bit on her arm. She had no open sores or areas of dry skin of any kind. She promptly washed up and cleaned her shirt with virex... Should this be written up as an exposure? What would u do if it happened to you?

Tiger

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

To the OP - definitely do an incident report but don't worry about it.

Jorisu - yes, I actually have three pts with LIfe-Sites- all have been on dialysis for >8 years and all are in sad shape. However, they work, so we use them. They are also folks who have no other chance for access.

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Specializes in NICU.

The tunneled catheter had been placed earlier in the day. From radiology he went to dialysis where they gave him heparin. He was bleeding around the insertion site. Developed a huge hematoma right up by his neck! It was awful looking. Scared it would compromise airway. He started to bleed around 1500.. I redressed the site... Bleeding again at 1600, held pressure 15 min, redressed and it stopped.. around 1700 it started bleeding again and we held pressure until I left at 2100. We were in the process of giving 3 units FFP's when I finally was able to chart and leave. His PTT ended up being >100 by the way.

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