I started gagging during the oesophageal manometry procedure (tube through the nose and down to the throat). The procedure had to halted, so I could take 5 minutes time out, to compose myself.
The nurse was about to start the procedure again... when I noticed their dripping gloves and dripping tube. I asked them if they would be changing these to clean ones. The nurse 'reassured' me that no-one else had used that tube (completely missed the point I was making).
But I pointed to their gloves and the tube,and reminded them that they were dripping from the fluids that came out of my nose and mouth. I asked again 'Shouldn't you be changing the gloves and tube to clean ones, before you start again?' But they didn't think there was any need: 'because it is your own fluids on my gloves and the tube'. I looked at the doctor who was standing with them and observing, yet they didn't say anything either.
Really gross....
"Infection control issue (GI Physiology Unit -..."
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