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I am an RN and worked for fifteen years in a busy ER. EMTs and other nurses would start IVs and make a fucking mess or have trauma patients bleeding all over the place. When the patients left, the beds seldom were cleaned other than a token wipe down and new sheet. New patients were dumped in beds with blood under the mattress, on the insides of the bed rail, and down the side of the bed. Many of these patients were Hep C+ and possibly HIV positive.
The hospital and most other staff did not give a shit and were too cheap to get enough help to clean beds appropriately.
Most people were so stressed about having to come to the ER and facinated with the caos that they never noticed.
If you have to go to the ER, look at the bed before you or your family gets in it. If you get put in a bloody bed, have the hospital operator contact the administration on call, not to mention the health department.