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Paranoid about hygiene practice at imaging center

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Jona66
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I'd like your opinion if i'm being paranoid or justified in my thinking.

I had an MRI done yesterday with contrast (gadolinium).

As I was lying down in front of the MRI machine, I saw the MRI technician in the corner getting everything together without gloves or facemask on (getting the saline in the tubes/IV line, etc.). Noticed he also filled up the syringe with the gadolinium still without having gloves on.

He then brought everything over and finally put on gloves to wipe down my vein and insert the line for the gadolinium and saline.

When everything was done, he came back (without gloves on again) and took the needle out and put a gauze on my injection site with his bare thumb. His bare thumb didn't touch the injection site but still.

Is this normal/safe operating procedure? Or am I being paranoid in that he could have passed something (virus, hep, etc.) on to me.

Didn't help that he was constantly coughing.

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