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An intensive care junior doctor presents overnight to the ED. She has suffered a needlestick injury from a needle used to insert a central line in an intubated patient known to be HIV positive, with a detectable viral load. The junior doctor has received the full hep B vaccination course, the last dose of which was 2 years ago. The patient’s hep B status is unknown.
What PEP should be offered?
In relation to consent from the source patient, who is likely to be intubated for some time, which of the following statements are true?
What further advice should be given to the exposed member of staff?