Salin lock splash

[Arashhashemi]

Hi.im a hcp from iran. Last night i felt some drop from a saline lock on my lip and mouth. Patient was hiv+. The salin lock and port was clean. I didnt see any blood in port and lock. Is it any risk? Please help me.

[Sara_MHModerator]

Our members are telling you that you were not at risk from this event.  We wish you the best

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[Arashhashemi]

In iran setting superviser and help group doses not existent.
I have some question. But no one answered.
1 month ago a little saline splash to my eye from top point of patient port that blood rejected till half point of port then flushed after it splash occurred. Superviser say it is your decide to use pep or not! Im really confused.

[laxus2012]

since you're still asking the same question over and over, i will add to the others who have already answered. No, you're not at risk for HIV, relax. you've been told how the virus is transmitted as well. you can relax now.

[Arashhashemi]

In iran setting superviser and help group doses not existent.
I have some question. But no one answered.
1 month ago a little saline splash to my eye from top point of patient port that blood rejected till half point of port then flushed after it splash occurred. Superviser say it is your decide to use pep or not! Im really confused.
Are you read this exposure also?

[GuitarRox]

Sincerely, since you are calling this an occupational risk, you should speak to your supervisor about getting educated on risks. This wasn't one. You were not injected with a syringe. You can't get HIV from the way you describe.  Speak to someone about what occupational exposures really exist at the hospital.  Not to mention, you obviously would be trained on what protocol would be to follow if you REALLY had one. This wouldn't be it (writing us ----  ).  Talk to your supervisor for education but this was NOT A RISK

[Arashhashemi]

In iran setting superviser and help group doses not existent.
I have some question. But no one answered.
1 month ago a little saline splash to my eye from top point of patient port that blood rejected till half point of port then flushed after it splash occurred. Superviser say it is your decide to use pep or not! Im really confused.

[Arashhashemi]

I know many information about hiv but no documentation help confused me.

[AnxiousNoMore]

I provided all you need to know to prevent HIV. You skipped over that and claim you had a risk, so it seems your mind was made up that you had a risk before you came here.
Unless you can identify that your encounter was one of the only 3 risks in my list then you are just making up your own science.

[Arashhashemi]

May i direc contact with a dr online?

[Chima7]

If you're a healthcare provider then it's your responsibility to seek out training to ensure that you have the most current knowledge about occupational risks. I suggest that you speak with your supervisor to ask for help on your specific facility's policies and procedures around occupational exposures, as far as what is a risk and what isn't, and what to do in the event of an exposure. You owe the patients under your care to understand these policies to be able to treat them without panicking like an amateur.

[Arashhashemi]

May i contact direct to you?

[Arashhashemi]

In iran setting superviser and help group doses not existent.
I have some question. But no one answered.
1 month ago a little saline splash to my eye from top point of patient port that blood rejected till half point of port then flushed after it splash occurred. Superviser say it is your decide to use pep or not! Im really confused.

[Chima7]

I don't work at your hospital. You need to seek out local resources in your hospital for proper training on their specific procedures.

[Arashhashemi]

Thank you

[diver58]

This is not an HIV concern. Contact of any object (even if it carries body fluid on it) externally with any part of the body does not put us at any risk of HIV

[Arashhashemi]

Even when blood rejected in port?

[AnxiousNoMore]

HIV is a fragile virus with very limited methods to infect as you will read below
You had no risk for HIV so any test would be a waste of time.  
There are only 3 ways HIV can be transmitted and you didn't do any of them.

HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities.  The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established. No one got HIV from what you did in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you did to be less than that of being hit by a meteorite.

[Arashhashemi]

I work in hospital and occupational exposure are risk for hiv!