A staff nurse is exposed to hepatitis B. Hospital protocol is that the staff nurse report to the emergency department for the administration of what substance to provide passive acquired immunity?
A) Gamma globulin
B) Antibiotics
C) Albumin
D) Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine
Ans: A
Feedback: Gamma globulin, obtained from the blood plasma of people with acquired immunity, is used in emergencies to provide immunity to diseases when the risk for contacting a specific disease is great and there is not enough time for a person to develop adequate active immunity. Antibiotics would only help if what the patient was exposed to was a bacterial infection. Albumin would not give the patient passive acquired immunity. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine would have no effect on this patient.
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