How to avoid needlesticks: hospitals can help minimize needlestick injuries by providing safety devices. The rest, however, is up to youIn 2000, the Needlestick Prevention and Safety Act made it mandatory for hospitals to provide nurses with safety devices for s...
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Hepatitis C is a blood-borne illness, meaning it is transmitted via contact with infected blood. Usually the virus enters the body through a puncture wound on the skin. The most common way hepatitis C is transmitted is via injection drug use. Sharing dirty needles with someone who is infected...
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How to Avoid Needlestick Injuries.Offers pointers on how to prevent needlestick injuries among health care workers. Implementation of use of improved engineering controls; Incorporation of engineering controls into comprehensive programs involving workers.Murray...
Because needlestick injuries are a major cause of these exposures in the health care setting, it is important to recognize that there are work practices and engineering controls to help reduce these exposures and injuries. This brochure looks at the issue of safer needle devices and how they ...
If their use is to become more widespread, we must focus on availability, evaluation for specific applications, and physician education.doi:10.1097/AOG.0b013e31817afe2cCatanzariteValObstetrics and GynecologyV Catanzarite,K Byrd,M McNamara,A Bombard.Preventing needlestick injuries in obste...
A recent court ruling over a case of injection-needlestick-injury induced CRPS has touched off serious debates among both medical practitioners and legal professionals. Although the court rejected the plaintiff's claims, the high court admitted them in view of the evidence and the entire pleadings...
Injuries, Preventing NeedlestickCatanzarite V, Byrd K, McNamara M, Bombard A. Preventing needle stick injuries in obstetrics and gynecology: how can we improve the use of blunt tip needles in practice? Obstet Gynecol 2007;110:1399-403.