A 29-year-old physician accidentally sticks herself in the thumb after drawing blood during a cardiopulmonary resuscitation involving a man with HIV who was hospitalized for severe pneumonia. The site of the needlestick in the thumb bled for approximately 2 minutes. The source patient has not been engaged in medical care and laboratory studies obtained at the time of hospital admission 3 days prior showed a CD4 count of 148 cells/mm3 and an HIV RNA of 27,450 copies/mL.
If the physician does not take antiretroviral postexposure prophylaxis (PEP), what would be the approximate risk of acquiring HIV from this needlestick injury?
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September 20th, 2023
September 20th, 2023
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