Work-related medical emergencies

• Injuries that involve an exposure to human or nonhuman primate body fluids should be treated as medical emergencies.
• First aid should be initiated immediately on-site.
• Contaminated skin should be scrubbed with soap and water for 15 minutes.
• Contaminated eyes or mucous membranes should be irrigated with water or normal saline for 15 minutes.
• The injury should be reported to OMS immediately in Bldg. 10, Room 6C306 at (301) 496-4411.

On-Call Emergency Care

An OMS clinician is on-call to respond to occupational exposures to HIV, monkey B virus, and other potentially life-threatening biohazards that occur during hours that the clinic is closed. The on-call OMS healthcare provider can be contacted by calling the NIH Page Operator on 301-496-1211.

Personal medical emergencies

OMS provides limited medical care for medical emergencies that occur on the NIH campus.

For emergency medical care call:

• 111 in the Clinical Center
• 911 elsewhere on the NIH campus
• 9-911 in NIH offices not on the NIH campus