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high-risk needlestick injuries
- Deep percutaneous injuries
- Visible blood on injuring device
- Hollow needle from source patient artery or vein
- Large bore needle
- Blood containing a high viral load of HBV, HCV or HIV
- The presence of HBeAg in source
- Higher volume of material
high-risk HIV if the source is unknown
- people who inject drugs (PWID),
- prisoner,
- a commercial sex worker (CSW),
- men who have sex with men (MSM),
- born in an endemic country,
- a sexual partner with a risk factor
blood test
- Source unknown status: HBV-HBsAg, HCV-anti-HCV and HIV Ag/Ab
- Recipient: HBsAg,anti-HBc, anti-HCV and HIV Ag/Ab
Read: http://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/EMIToolkit/appendices/app3.pdf
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