The Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act to revise the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) standard regulating occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens, including the human immunodeficiency virus, the hepatitis B virus, and the hepatitis C virus, was signed into law on ...
3.Tissue Injury The most common injury associated with needle sticks has been damage to nerves from the needle stick.Sciatic nervedamage now occurs less frequently since the World Health Organization, CDC, and American Academy ofPediatricsdiscouraged use of the buttocks for vaccine administration [34...
control strategy must be on prevention, but if groups are considered to be at high risk, UNISON believes that they should be offered the Hepatitis B vaccine free of charge through the employer’s occupational health scheme. Vaccination against tetanus should also be offered. However, employees sho...
Occupational exposure to blood is a com-mon problem among medical students. Efforts arerequired to ensure greater awareness among medicalstudents about the risk of bloodborne pathogens. Propertraining in procedures and how to act in case of injury1)Original German online version at: http://www.re...
Proper training in procedures and how to act in case of injury 1)Original German online version at: http://www.reference- global.com/doi/pdf/10.1515/JLM.2008.037. The German article was translated by Compuscript Ltd. and authorized by the authors. *Correspondence: Dr. Sabine Wicker, ...
Issues in understanding the impact of the needlestick safety and prevention act on hospital sharps injuries. Measuring the effect of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (NSPA) is challenging. No agreement exists on a common denominator for calculating injury... Elayne,Kornblatt,Phillips,......
To the Editor: The Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (NSPA) (HR.5178) was signed into law on November 6, 2000.1 It required employers to provide safety-engineered devices to employees who are at risk for exposure to bloodborne pathogens, to include frontline workers in selecting these ...
Babcock, M D, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO Issue: In 2000 the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was signed into law. This Act required health care organizations to implement the use of safer sharp devices to prevent needles...
H.R.5178 (the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act), enacted in 2000, was intended to protect a high-risk population from injury while performing routine, albeit hazardous procedures. This study quantified changes in hospital worker injury rates associated with the legislation. We employed a ...
Other state legislation and the passage of the Federal Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act in 2000 led to rapid adoption of safety engineered medical devices; however, introduction of new technology plateaued shortly after the Act. There is considerable evidence that sharps injuries to HCWs persist...