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RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM

CASE STUDY REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

NAME: Guboc, Karl Jay-Ronn C. DATE: March 17, 2020

I. CASE STUDY SUMMARY:

Case studies highlight the need for effective infection control to prevent HCV
transmissions

In June 2011, the Wisconsin Division of Public Health was notified of a patient with HCV-4
infection. HCV-4 infections typically occur in the Middle East and Africa and are not
commonly documented in Wisconsin. The patient — patient one —underwent hemodialysis
for approximately one year until he received a single transplanted kidney in 2009 at
hospital A. WDPH staffer members initially focused on the renal transplant procedure and
contacted the United Network for Organ Sharing for donor information. The organization
told the WDPH that the donor's liver and second kidney were procured and shipped to
hospital A to be transplanted into another patient — patient two. Patient two had a history
of liver failure resulting from chronic HCV-4 infection, chronic renal disease requiring
hemodialysis and insulin-dependent diabetes. In 2009, patients one and two had received
organ transplants simultaneously in adjacent operating rooms. Laboratory and
epidemiologic evidence indicated that patient 2, not the organ donor, was the likely source
of patient 1's HCV-4 infection.

II. REFLECTION:

These case studies indicate that partnerships and communication between public health
and healthcare professionals is essential to ensure that basic infection control and injection
safety practices are optimized wherever healthcare is delivered. Being able to control the
infection is very important in the hospital to ensure the safety of the patient and to avoid
any further complications. To avoid this kind of negligence one must be sure in every step
they made and thinking all the hazards for the operation in that way they can control the
infection and ensure the safety and health of the patient and for sure avoid their selves
from any medical negligence that may make them lose there licenses.

III. REFERENCE:
https://www.beckersasc.com/gastroenterology-and-endoscopy/2-case-studies-highlight-
the-need-for-effective-infection-control-to-prevent-hcv-transmissions.html

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