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Please assess my exposure
Dear doctor(s),
Thank you very much for being here on this great website.
A few hours a ago, i was sitting on a chair in a public restaurant and part of my hip was accidentially punctured by a very tiny sharped edged- object that i did not take noticed of at the beginning. I was so nervous and tried to figure out what it was. It turned out to be some how a quite small broken glass or very tiny sharped plastic thing on the chair that i sat on. My wounded part of the hip bleed as a result of the sting.
The puncture happened after about 12 minutes since i started sitting on that chair.
Could you please assess my exposure just considering if there were somebody who had sat on that chair and also stung by that object before me? And do i need a PEP for that?
Thank you very much in advance.
Sincerely yours,
Thank you very much for being here on this great website.
A few hours a ago, i was sitting on a chair in a public restaurant and part of my hip was accidentially punctured by a very tiny sharped edged- object that i did not take noticed of at the beginning. I was so nervous and tried to figure out what it was. It turned out to be some how a quite small broken glass or very tiny sharped plastic thing on the chair that i sat on. My wounded part of the hip bleed as a result of the sting.
The puncture happened after about 12 minutes since i started sitting on that chair.
Could you please assess my exposure just considering if there were somebody who had sat on that chair and also stung by that object before me? And do i need a PEP for that?
Thank you very much in advance.
Sincerely yours,
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