You are respiratory therapist working the night shift when you are called to the emergency department for a cardiac arrest. As you start to intubate the patient, you feel some type of liquid splatter in your right eye. Is there an exposure? Why or why not?
A)Yes. There is a portal of entry and a method of travel.
B)No. There is no portal of entry and no method of travel.
C)No. There is a portal of entry but no method of travel.
D)No. There is a method of travel, but no portal of entry.

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The eye provides a portal of entry for pathogens, and the splatter acts as a method of travel, thus constituting an exposure.

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