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How can dialysis transmit infection to health care workers?

April 26, 2017dialysis health care infection transmit Workers

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How can dialysis transmit infection to health care workers?

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A. Patients on dialysis have a chance of transmission of blood born diseases as HIV, HCV, HBV through contamination of the dialysis machine. Your question is about health care workers’ chance of infection from dialysis machine; I don’t know if there is a chance for contact with the patient’s blood or not during the application of the machine.