Re: should I worry about hepatitis c?

On Aug 4, 6:34 pm, greyhackles <greyhack...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Of course "it" would be classified as an occupational exposure - assuming you
weren't moonlighting at the time ;-)



but is this something that I should report to the hospital's
occupational safety unit?

I may have grabbed onto the sharp end of the suturing needle but I
didn't necessarily stick myself. I didn't have a visible hole on
either glove and I didn't bleed or get any skin tears.

I don't know if my experience qualifies as an occupational exposure
defined by my hospital.

Also, this patient had extraordinarily high liver enzyme volmes
( would this usually correlate to high hcv viral loads? ) , and I'm
not sure if this justifies my worries in that I might have contracted
hcv.

.

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