{"id":1722,"date":"2008-04-29T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/reuse_of_syringes_can_cause_da\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:07:46","slug":"reuse-of-syringes-can-cause-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/reuse-of-syringes-can-cause-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuse of Syringes Can Cause Dangerous Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Malpractice takes many forms.  In this article, we write about a unusual but dangerous medical error that can cause lifetime consequences for an innocent patient.<\/p>\n<p>Though most everyone knows that sharing needles is unsafe in today\u2019s world, sharing or reusing syringes can be equally dangerous.  During any health related injection, a tiny amount of blood is often inadvertently drawn back into a syringe.  Most of the time, that does not make a difference because it is common practice to use a new syringe and a new needle for subsequent injections.  But in some cases, those involved may change the needle but not the syringe.  They then use that syringe to draw more medicine from a vial.  By doing so, the small amount of blood that may have been in the dirty syringe inadvertently flows back into the vial contaminating the entire vial.<\/p>\n<p>We read recently in an article in USA Today about a lady by the name of Evelyn McKnight who has founded a patient advocacy group entitled HONOReform.  Ms. McKnight apparently was infected with Hepatitis C which has caused her to be chronically fatigued and has compromised the quality of her life significantly.  Apparently, she was infected with this disease when someone reused a syringe even though a clean needle was used during a chemotherapy treatment for her cancer.  Quite literally, she went to a doctor to be healed but then came away with a life threatening illness.  To keep that from happening elsewhere, she has founded the patient advocacy group HONOReform, that uses education and advocacy to try to stop the kind of medical errors by which blood borne diseases can be transmitted.  Unfortunately for Ms. McKnight and others who have been given Hepatitis C from unclean syringes, there is no universal cure for the disease.  20% immediately develop acute infections and symptoms ranging from jaundice to fatigue, however, 75 to 85 percent may develop a chronic infection but may not exhibit symptoms for many years.  Some may die of liver disease.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/reuse-of-syringes-can-cause-da\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Reuse of Syringes Can Cause Dangerous Infections\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Malpractice takes many forms. In this article, we write about a unusual but dangerous medical error that can cause lifetime consequences for an innocent patient. Though most everyone knows that sharing needles is unsafe in today\u2019s world, sharing or reusing syringes can be equally dangerous. 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