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Comments :: Experts urge patients to ask questions before getting injections

Experts urge patients to ask questions before getting injections


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This should also apply to phlebotomy procedures. I was at an employer sponsored health screening last year and was watching and listening to the screeners and the phlebotomists and they were not consistent in their screening questions or their blood draw procedures. Not sure I will go again even though it is free. Get educated people. Only you can look out for your health and well being.
Click to view my profile joeBob
January 17, 2013 8:14 a.m.
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As a nurse, it would never, ever enter my mind to re-use a syringe. As far as multi dose medication bottles (i.e., insulin) I wipe the top with an alcohol wipe each time. I don't know any R.N.s who don't follow this procedure. While I was working in New Orleans during/after Katrina, all our tetanus and hepatitis vaccines came from single dose vials, and the needles were also single use. As far as I know, this is a non issue.
Click to view my profile raleighlynn
January 15, 2013 2:55 p.m.
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"advises patients to ask their health care provider if a new needle, new syringe and new vial is being used for every procedure"

Whut? And the ethics of the health care provider will make them to tell the truth about this? I can hear the response now:

"Uh, yes, mam, this syringe has been used for 18 patients before you. But I'll get a fresh one for you, just because you asked..."
zProt
January 10, 2013 9:29 a.m.
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as a healtcare professional who works in public health, I am saddened that it has come to this. I have worked in the immunizations field for a majority of my career and have never reused anything that was a single use item. Anyone who does is obviously not following CDC injection recommendations and should be fired on the spot. Safety devices should be used and they are difficult to reuse as needles retract automatically on some devices.
Click to view my profile piratepeople2
January 10, 2013 8:49 a.m.
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My mother got a severe infection after receiving a shot from a nurse who used improper technique. Keep your eyes open. Educate yourself. If something looks wrong, say something.
Click to view my profile drnc
January 9, 2013 6:46 p.m.
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People expect a clean syringe and needle with a safe drug vile when they get an injection; have forever, why the hell is that not the law. How sad that we must have a law to protect people when it comes to their health. R. Cain
onecallplus
January 9, 2013 6:09 p.m.
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