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A Former Hospital Employee May Have Exposed Hundreds Or Thousands Of Surgical Patients To Hepatitis C When She Replaced Clean Needles Filled With The Powerful Painkiller Fentanyl With Her Own Dirty Needles Filled With Saline Solution.
Federal officials Thursday warned that about 5,700 surgery patients, including 1,000 at a Colorado Springs surgery center, are at risk of having been infected by an operating room technician with hepatitis C.
Woman Faces Criminal Charges for Swapping Her Own Dirty Syringes for Ones With Narcotic
DENVER - Rose Medical Center started talking directly with patients on Friday after it announced that a surgery technician may have exposed thousands of patients to Hepatitis C while she was stealing a powerful painkiller.
A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.
A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, officials said.
DENVER, July 3 (UPI) -- Thousands of patients in Colorado may have been exposed to hepatitis C from syringes used by an infected former medical technician, officials say.
Former surgery technician Kristen Diane Parker is at the center of a federal investigation for possibly exposing about 6,000 surgery patients to hepatitis C.Authorities told reporters that Parker, who was working at Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center in Colorado Springs and Rose Medical Center in Denver, admitted to swapping her personal syringes used to inject a saline solution with syringes ...
Thousands of surgery patients in Colorado are at risk of possibly having been infected with Hepatitis C. The warning includes as many as a thousand local patients.
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