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*LASD is your liaison to interact with outside law enforcement
*LASD is your liaison to interact with outside law enforcement
*Call social work consult
*Call social work consult
*Consult SCAN if patient 18 yo or younger
*Consider STI prophylaxis, Plan B, Hep B and HPV vaccines, PEP prophylaxis within 72 hours
*Consider STI prophylaxis, Plan B, Hep B and HPV vaccines, PEP prophylaxis within 72 hours
*Preserve evidence - external GU exams only if possible, obtain dirty catch UA, NPO if oral trauma, clothes in brown paper bag (not plastic which can degrade DNA, promote bacterial contamination)
*Preserve evidence - external GU exams only if possible, obtain dirty catch UA, NPO if oral trauma, clothes in brown paper bag (not plastic which can degrade DNA, promote bacterial contamination)

Revision as of 18:40, 15 October 2020

General Guidelines

  • SART candidate if within 96 hours
  • Call LASD to report and find out what PD precinct needs to come take report
  • LASD is your liaison to interact with outside law enforcement
  • Call social work consult
  • Consult SCAN if patient 18 yo or younger
  • Consider STI prophylaxis, Plan B, Hep B and HPV vaccines, PEP prophylaxis within 72 hours
  • Preserve evidence - external GU exams only if possible, obtain dirty catch UA, NPO if oral trauma, clothes in brown paper bag (not plastic which can degrade DNA, promote bacterial contamination)
  • Transportation issues - talk to SW and law enforcement
  • SART does not do labs, can give Plan B and STI prophylaxis only. Does not do PEP or medical work up.

Harbor ED Policy


  • High-risk HIV exposure: shared needles with HIV+ person, or partner or assailant in the case of sexual assault has unknown HIV status, is known HIV+ or highly likely to be HIV+ with a high viral load and the sexual activity was associated with a high risk of transmission, e.g., receptive anal intercourse, sexual assault with vaginal trauma, occurring within the prior 72 hours.
    • Sexual assault victims should be offered Tenofovir/Emtricitabine (Truvada) 200/300 mg daily plus Raltegravir 400 mg BID and should be referred immediately to a SART center for STI testing and prophylaxis. Can consider offering Plan B contraception if patient is not NPO for evidence collection.
      • If the patient meets these criteria, then first dose of non-occupational PEP gave be given in ED. We are working on a process to give patient's 48 hours of medications to go home with to tie them over until they can get the 28d course needed from a PEP center.
      • For a patient that seeks post-sexual-exposure/non-occupational HIV prophylaxis (nPEP), the patient should also be referred to a PEP center http://getprepla.com/PEP/Get-PEP-Now/ to obtain the additional medications and follow up labs, such as the Los Angeles LGBT Center. The LA LGBT Gay and Lesbian Center has a program for post-exposure prophylaxis in a number of specific circumstances; patients can be referred within 72 hours of an exposure. Their hours are Mon-Friday 11am-6pm (telephone number is 323-860-5855, and their website is https://lalgbtcenter.org/post-exposure-prophylaxis).
      • If you happen to see a patient who meets the criteria above, then a baseline rapid HIV should be sent to make sure the patient is not already infected, in additional CBC, BMP, LFTs, Hep screen (Hep A IgG, Hep B sAg, sAb, cAb, and Hep C Ab), needs to be sent. Tenofovir DF is contraindicated in patients with renal dysfunction (creatinine clearance ≤59 mL/min). For these cases, please consult the HIV or infectious disease team at your site, or the National Clinical Consultations Center’s PEPline at (888) 448-4911

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