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What Is The Risk Of HIV With This Kind Of Exposure?
I am the Employee Health nurse at a small hospital. A patient vomited and some of the vomitus splashed into an employee's eye. She promptly irrigated her eyes per protocol. The patient was known to be Hepatitis C positive and was tested. Results were HCV RNA PCR quantitative - 0000 (<43 IU/ml) and HCV PCR 7.02 (<1.63). What is the risk of infection to the employee from this kind of exposure?
Sat, 19 Jul 2014
if the patients hiv status is reactive, then there is chances of developing aids. for hcv you should also worries for it. since hcv virus spread is by blood borne route. it is good thing that you have irrigated your eyes as per protocol. So you have definitive chance of getting infected. take due precaution. take post exposure prophylaxis. than start anti retroviral therapy
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