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Exposure Reporting and Management Procedure: Baltimore Campus

If an exposure has or may have occurred:

  1. STOP and IMMEDIATELY remove item responsible for exposure to prevent a DOUBLE exposure
    • Note if item is visibly bloody
  2. Remove PPE, set aside gloves for checking later if a glove breach is not obvious (SOD nurse can help)
  3. Wash all wounds with soap and water, and flush exposed mucous membranes with cool water
    • Do not force wounds to bleed
  4. DO NOT dismiss source patient/stop patient from leaving (if possible), if discharge has occurred
  5. Prepare to report the incident, make note of patient medical history/risk factors and have patient ID #
  6. Report incident to your attending faculty (student/resident), or department supervisor (staff)
  7. Report exposure to an SOD nurse; the most efficient way to do so is to use the emergency pager system
    • To place an emergency page:
      • Locate the button marked Emergency on a clinic wall phone and press (emergency pager number will be auto dialed) or dial 410-389-1324 (dial 9 first if using an SOD phone)
      • After 3 beeping tones are heard, enter your room or quad number, followed by the # sign (lower level dial 777)
      • Nurse(s) will respond to your area within a few minutes (page again, if no response in 3-5 minutes)*
    • If unable to contact SOD nurse, phone Student and Employee Health/UMIC (410-328-1362) for advice on post exposure follow-up, indicate an exposure has occurred and ask to speak directly to Dr. Baronas or Denise Mitchell, PA. After 5pm, Dr. Baronas can be reached by cell phone at 410-608-0337 (DO NOT go to the ER without a referral from Dr. Baronas)
  8. Complete the required forms (all incident details must be provided to an SOD nurse as soon as possible)

Required Injury Reporting Forms:

  1. Student/Resident, Staff, Employee and Volunteer forms will be provided by a SOD nurse, or can located in bins on SOD nurses’ office doors
Students Employees* (Staff and Faculty) Volunteers
1) U of MD Post Occupational Exposure Information Sheet
2) Adverse Incident Report		 1) First Report of Injury (needed for medical follow-up)
2) Accident Witness Statement (indicate if no witness)
3) Supervisor’s report of Injury
*department must fax to corporate or state EHS within 3 days (copy to SOD nurse), unless done online
4) U of MD SOD Post Occupational Exposure Information Sheet
5) Adverse Incident Report		 1) U of MD SOD Post Occupational Exposure Information Sheet
2) JE Authorization Form (needed to receive treatment at U of MD Immediate Care
3) Adverse Incident Report

Adverse Incident Forms (old format) in bin on nurses’ doors and can be used to record the facts, or write the details on paper until a nurse can enter them online. Never refer to an incident report in the EPR

updated 5/2016