A patient came to a clinic to get vaccinated. But due to, among other things, high patient pressure, procedures were not followed correctly, and the patient was stuck with the same needle as the patient before.
The whole thing was quickly noticed, but as routines for puncture wounds were not fully known, the patient was initially referred to the wrong one for sampling. Finally, the patient received correct sampling and infection prevention treatment.
Follow-up sampling has shown that the patient did not suffer from any infection.
Region Västerbotten writes in a press release that they have investigated the case and developed measures to reduce the risk of repetition, as well as reported the incident to IVO according to lex Maria.