Harbor:Occupational exposure

Harbor Management

• Exposure during weekdays (non-holidays), from 7:00a-3:30p:
  • Send employee directly to Employee Health office for evaluation
    • Except if employee has sustained injury that warrants ED evaluation (i.e. laceration)
  • Goal time from exposure to Employee Health office < 15 minutes
  • Have provider for source patient call Employee Health at x2360
    • Gives NP in Employee Health a contact in case of labs need to be drawn on source patient
  • Do not draw any labs on source patient, unless asked to do so by the NP in Employee Health
• Exposure during all other times:
  • Employee with potential blood-borne pathogen exposure should be evaluated in ED
  • Create and use "Occupational Exposure" dot-phrases to guide evaluation, assess risk, need for testing, and indications for obtaining ID/HIV consult
  • If exposure warrants rapid HIV test on the source patient, then must give source patient opportunity to opt out of HIV test

See Also

• Harbor:Main
• Occupational Exposure
• HIV Prophylaxis (Occupational)

References

HUCLA