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HIV-Infected Health Care Workers Who Perform Invasive, Exposure-Prone Procedures:Defining the Risk and Balancing the Interests of Health Care Workers and Patients
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Tammy L. Greene Assignment #4 HIV-Infected Health Care Workers Who Perform Invasive, Exposure-Prone Procedures: Defining the Risk and Balancing the Interests of Health Care Workers and Patients INTRODUCTION In the early 1990s, a report of a dentist who transmitted Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) to a patient resulted in mass fear and confusion among the health care industry, regulatory agencies, and the public at large. After conducting an extensive study, the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed that six patients of Dr. David Acer had become infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while under his care in the early 1990s. (1) This incident, known as the "Acer cluster," however, is the only known transmission of HIV from a health care worker (HCW) to a patient in the United States. Because of obstacles to reporting exposures and unreliable data regarding how many physicians have been infected with AIDS, the fact that the Acer cluster...
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