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While you are collecting a throat specimen, the patient gags and accidentally touches the swab with her tongue. What should you do? Why?
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While you are collecting a throat specimen, the patient gags and accidentally touches the swab with her tongue. What should you do? Why?

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You throw the swab away and get another one. Also I recommend to get something to hold the tongue down with so they don't touch is with there tongue again :))
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