11 patients infected with Hep C in Bulgaria, RN error.

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Specializes in Cardiology, Oncology, Medsurge.
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Arterial transfusion? What does that mean, exactly?

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

would love to know more about that. Sounds like re-using syringes is a practice there, or it would not have happened so often. Not enough details to judge the situation, but in a town that size this must be devastating.

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LilyBlue

Good question! I didn't catch this!

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Specializes in CVICU.

Arterial transfusion? Perhaps an art line insertion kit of some nature?

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Arterial line? could be anything, newspaper jurnalists can be really bad when it comes to medical terms. I saw recently where a journalist mixed up Typhoid with Dengue in an article saying that Dengue had a vaccine. JEEZ!

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I learned about a fistula created just for this purpose in school and yes it is used for hemodialysis.

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