Hi guys, sorry for my bad english. I searched the internet for this answer and I didn't find it so I hope someone here can have an idea. I'm from Brazil.
I had a risk about 3 months ago, my risk was unprotected sex so today I went to do a panel for STD, hiv and others. Collection was normal and I'm waiting for the results, the needle was new and the syringe too. What happened was the nurse seemed a little nervous and when it was time to move my blood from the syringe to the blood tube, the tube cap came off and then my blood was in the tube and was it out in the open? Because the tube was uncapped for a few seconds and she capped it back and put it in place.
Won't that harm my sample? Given that the blood has been exposed to air and therefore loses its capabilities?
"blood in contact with the air is not a contaminant" is what you see on the internet.
So my blood was lost? And she didn't ask me to collect it again?
Thanks