-Caveat Lector-
It may be that some needles are better manufactured than others and
she was keeping the good ones for patients who had finer veins. My
mother was at one time a specialist at starting IVs. Some people have
very large veins and are easy to start IVs on. Others have finer veins
and it can be a big problem. How would you like to be stuck several
times? She probably thought she was doing them a favor. Incidentally, it
used to be that all needles were re-used. My mother had a set that she
used for giving anti-biotics to us kids for years. They got rather dull.
We were happy when she got the throw away type. However, she would
always sterilize them in boiling water. Much better than H2O2.
Howard Davis
"Hilary A. Thomas" wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> When I heard this report last night I was floored. Why would the tech do
> this? Her training would indicate that it can't be ignorance. Lazy? It's
> harder to wash a needle then to open a new package. So, what's up with
> this?
>
> Hilary
>
> Calif. blood lab patients warned in needle scare
>
> By Greg Frost
>
> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thousands of patients who had blood drawn at a
> California laboratory will be warned to take AIDS and hepatitis tests after
> a
> technician at the lab admitted she sometimes reused disposable hypodermic
> needles, officials said Friday.
>
> Confirming a report in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, state health
> authorities and Anglo-U.S. drug maker SmithKline Beecham said they were
> mailing warnings to at least 3,600 patients in San Mateo and Santa Clara
> counties who had blood work performed at a SmithKline clinical lab in Palo
> Alto, Calif.
>
> SmithKline fired the unidentified technician, or phlebotomist, after a
> colleague saw her reuse a needle on March 22. During an investigation, the
> phlebotomist acknowledged reusing certain needles to draw blood from
> patients
> with veins that were difficult to access.
>
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