eSign First Aid Incident Report Made Easy

Esign first aid incident report

The Exposure Incident. Now, don't confuse "exposure incidents" with "an exposure." Exposure is literally: any time you are in the vicinity of blood or body fluid. An exposure incident mean it got into your body or onto your body, even if that skin was intact. If this event occurs, it becomes an incident and there are some steps that need to be followed. The first step is to go and decontaminate as fast as possible. If it's in your eyes, nose, mouth, or other mucus membrane, the goal is to get it out of there. Wash it out with water, flush it out. If all you have is coffee or soda or something else, take a mouthful swish it around, spit it out if it's in your mouth. If you're by a sink, get it in your nose, blow it back out. The goal is to get the contamination out of your body or off your body as fast as possible. Check for any other areas of contamination, including your clothing. If there's clothing that's saturated with blood, get the clothing off and decontaminate the skin. Then, after you've decontaminated, it's time to go find a supervisor or your employer, and make them aware that you just had an exposure to blood or body fluid. Explain what happened, where it happened, why it happened, how it happened, and what you did to decontaminate afterwards. They're gonna take specific information from you, and who it was you were exposed by, or what it was you were exposed by. And then, from that point its time to actually fill out the basic information that's required by law to be filled out and turned in by the employer to start the paper trail on this incident. And then the goal is to get you to medical evaluation and follow-up. Now, medical evaluation is done by a professional. You'll probably be better off by going to an emergency room or hospital that specifically deals with exposure, the follow-up of that exposure, and then any treatment prophylactically or reactively depending on the amount of exposure and what happened. You only have about two hours from the time it occurs to the time you get that medical evaluation to begin a prophylactic treatment in order to maximize your best proactive anti-retroviral treatment. Now, this isn't to cause a panic, this isn't to make you afraid to work. This is to empower to you be able to know what you can do, in your workplace, to prevent, to react, and to follow up, whenever you have to deal with a bloodborne exposure.