Hiv patient uses a syringe for blooddraw & nurse uses syringe on a non-hiv will the result come back positive?

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.ph... she went to this hospital

http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1992/AD921...

yes if the person is hiv that use the syringe the first time without cleaning it and stuff...

that above website is a link about how people were mistakely redrawned blood and somewhat

hope this gives you some closure

First off that'll never happen because a competent nurse wouldnt re-use a syringe or needle....that is medically unethical....and if they did and got caught they need to lose their nursing license

From what I understand about HIV/AIDS, yes!!

Have your friend get re-tested somewhere else. And if she saw or has any evidence of reusing needles, she should report it. But I doubt that the nurse reused a needle.

No one that works in the hospital department reuses syringes even if the patient did not have hiv. Its unethical and if there is proof of incompetence then it should be reported only if the nurse was seeen to reusing the syringe

Needles are never ever re-used, what are you talking about??!!!!

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This is why they say you have a very good chance at catching a STD though intravenous drug use, such as Hep or HIV.

its possible, but a nurse should no that, i would recommend a test anyway just to be on the safe side as after all it is sharing bodily fluid.

That wouldn't happen because they don't let "SPECIAL" people become nurses but if the nurse were to do that it could come back positive or negative no test is 100% reliable

I took a look at the link you put up and I can't see what you're referring to.

But yes, any situation involving a shared needle between someone who is HIV+ and someone who isn't carries a sizable risk that the disease will be passed.

However - as someone has already pointed out, I'd be very surprised if any qualified nurse could be so ridiculously careless, unless there has been a very unfortunate set of circumstances leading up to a mistake like that being made.

First of all. These things do happen. Just because they "shouldn't" "it's not allowed" or you can't get your head round it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. So I don't see why you guys bothered posting.

Example: "Since 1989, at least three hospital patients have been injected with HIV as a result of negligence among health-care workers who improperly handled contaminated needles, according to the Centers for Disease Control."

To those posting links, they aren't working because you're putting a comma straight after them. See here and here:
http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1992/AD921...
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.ph...

The hospital for those who don't know is - Caldecot Sexual Health Centre in south London.
But from this webpage it looks like it's all rumours, although if such a thing happened it would be very likely to pass it on. That's why they take so many precautions.

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Milton Hanson, who alleged the NHS?was guilty of institutional racism, has died aged 57

Hanson appeared live on radio three years ago claiming that black patients may have been deliberately infected with HIV by hospital staff. The hospital said Hanson鈥檚 鈥渟erious and unfounded鈥?allegations were the reasons for his dismissal.

Following his dismissal, Hanson was locked in a legal brawl with King鈥檚 College Hospital but lost the two cases he brought against them.

Kenny Williams 鈥?who represented him at one of the tribunal hearings 鈥?told The Voice that Hanson lost on the grounds of insufficient evidence. 鈥淣one of his colleagues were willing to back him and so the allegations could not be proved.鈥?br>
Hanson was a registered nurse with the NHS for more than 30 years, with specialist skills in sexual health.

While in Jamaica, Hanson continued his campaign to expose what he perceived to be racism in the NHS.

Dr Green said that his organisation would soon establish The Milton Hanson Movement Against Racial Terrorism, as part of Hanson鈥檚 legacy.
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