Lab draw incident

[akkmed]

Hi there.  I have been worried about something.  I went to a lab to get blood drawn.  The phlebotomist laid out her things on the arm rest.  After my blood was drawn she gave me the gauze from the arm rest.  I applied pressure for a minute and then took if off bc there was no bleeding.   She then returned after labeling my vials and filling out some paperwork a half minute later and said i needed to apply more pressure.  She still had the same gloves on and got a new gauze for me.  She folded the gauze nicely and applied pressure which she then secured with a piece of tape.  I am worried that she may have touched some blood and contaminated her gloves between the time of labeling the vials and taking care of things and then getting me a gauze which was then directly applied to my site of lab draw.  There was a drop of blood on that gauze afterwards, which i assume is my own.  Is there a risk of contracting hiv through this scenario

[nursegirl6572]

Impossible.  You cannot get HIV this way.  

There are thousands of threads/posts where we discuss this in more detail.  

In a nutshell...these are the (brief) reasons why it's not possible:

1.  HIV virus cannot remain active outside body
2.  Not enough blood to create a "blood to blood" risk

HIV transmission does not occur from environmental surfaces.

[akkmed]

Thank you for your response.  I just wanted you to know know a little more information.  I got the lab drawn at a lab corp facility and I am sure there were patients around before me.  If there happened to be blood from another person on the pen she used to label my vials..is it possbile for HIV to live on a pen and then travel to her gloves to the guaze that she put on my antecubital fossa.  

[Vance2335]

No risk