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- OIs: Prophylaxis
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Postexposure Prophylaxis
Question | Discussion | References | CME Credit
Case 1: Risk Factors for HIV Transmission in Percutaneous Exposure
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Device/needle visibly bloody immediately prior to the needlestick injury. |
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This answer is incorrect. In a case-controlled analysis of health care workers who sustained a needlestick injury from an HIV-infected source patient, injury with a device that was visibly bloody immediately prior to the injury was associated with a significantly increased risk of HIV transmission to the health care worker.
Choose another answer:
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Deep injury to the health care worker. |
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Source patient with end-stage AIDS. |
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Device/needle used in an artery or vein of the source patient. |
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Age of the health care worker. |
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