From “Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News” (Issue: AUGUST 2013 | VOLUME: 64:8)
Evelyn McKnight, AuD, has first-hand knowledge of the devastating consequences of unsafe injection practices. In 2001, she contracted hepatitis C while undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer.
An investigation into the source of Dr. McKnight’s infection by the state health department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uncovered “dumbfounding and unsettling” findings, she said. For 16 months, a clinic nurse had been reusing syringes to draw saline solution from a common IV bag during port-flushing procedures in advance of administering chemotherapy. In the process, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection from a previously infected patient was spread to 99 others.
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