Needle-stick and sharps
Attitude, reporting behavour and management practice of occupational needle stick and sharps injuries among hospital healthcare workers in Bale zone, Southeast Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
... accidental needle and/or sharps injury, the potentially life threatening are Human Im- munodeficiency Virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) ...[2]. Needle stick and ...
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The Prevalence of Needle-Stick Injuries among Healthcare Workers in Dasht-e-Azadegan, Southern West of Iran
... of needle-stick injuries and the related factors (the history and the number of needle-stick injuries in the last 12 months, primary actions, and drug prophylaxis after ...
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Prevalence of needle stick injuries among health care providers
... Each year worldwide around 66,000 HBV, 16,000 HCV and 1,000 HIV infections were estimated to occur among HCWs – mostly in developing countries – due to their occupational exposure to percutaneous injuries. Work-related ...
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Kap study regarding needle stick injuries among nursing college students –a cross sectional study
... a needle prick injury is 100 times higher than that of contracting ...following needle stick ...on needle stick injuries stated ...to sharps, 62% involved hollow bore ...
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Impact of infection control activities on the rate of needle stick injuries at a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan over a period of six years: an observational study
... Through out the study period, junior doctors reported the highest number of incidents. Compliance to universal precaution, improper handling of sharps and negligence towards safe practices are important issues we ...
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Students’ Corner Knowledge, attitudes and practices of medical students regarding needle stick injuries
... avoid needle stick injuries improved with seniority in medical ...of needle stick injuries was observed among the medical students with the increasing year of medical education; hence strongly ...
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KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS OF NEEDLE STICK INJURY AMONG MEDICAL, NURSING AND PARAMEDIC STUDENTS OF MEDICAL FACULTY OF HOSPITAL CHANCELLOR TUANKU MUHRIZ
... “needle stick” injuries but the finding is significant and may be applied in the blood taking protocol of the ...a sharps safety measures to prevent injury during perioperative care which also ...
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A study on patterns of needle stick injuries among gynaecologic and general surgeons in open surgery
... Ganczak et al in a comparative study of sharp injuries reported by doctors versus nurses from surgical wards in the context of the prevalence of HBV, HCV and HIV infections. It was observed that 82 and doctors and 44.4% ...
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Comparison of awareness about precautions for needle stick injuries: a survey among health care workers at a tertiary care center in Pakistan
... pathogens, sharps injuries remain a major source of HCV infection among HCWs, accounting for almost 40 % of HCV ...nated sharps were estimated to cause 66,000 HBV infec- tion annually, associated with 261 ...
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OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens, Waste, Sharps and Catheters
... the sharps. Containers also must be available wherever sharps may be found, such as in ...Contaminated sharps must never be sheared or ...the needle itself to pick up the cap, and then the cap ...
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Needle-Stick Policy.
... a needle stick occurs on a Friday a three day allowance will be provided until follow up care is done on the following Monday at the Student Health Center at University of Texas - Dallas ...
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Assessment of needle stick and sharp injuries among health care workers in central zone of Tigray, northern Ethiopia
... Respondents who work for greater than 40 h per week were 16 times more likely to experience NSSI than those who were working less than or equal to 40 h per week (AOR = 16, 95% CI 6.252, 41.448). This is similar with the ...
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KAP STUDY Needle stick injuries among nurses of two tertiary care hospitals of Lahore: A KAP study
... In our study, the prevalence of NSIs in the public hospital was 44% compared to 26.4% in the private one. This difference could be due to the high patient turnover in public settings as opposed to private settings. The ...
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Occupational infection and needle stick injury among clinical laboratory workers in Al-Madinah city, Saudi Arabia
... applying educational and biosafety training programs and needle protective devices [24, 25]. The finding of the present study that needlestick injuries were strongly asso- ciated with the lack of training on ...
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“A STUDY TO DETERMINE THE OCCURRENCE AND KNOWLEDGE REGARDING NEEDLE STICK INJURIES AMONG STUDENT NURSES IN SELECTED NURSING INSTITUTIONS OF PUNJAB.
... The risk of accidental Needle sticks injuries is great during invasive procedures such as collection of blood and giving injections. There is confusion regarding correct responses to such accidents both at the ...
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Smart Stick
... Smart Stick for the visually challenged individuals to give them freedom and confidence to walk alone in the open and experience the world, without the help of any human ...Smart Stick comes as the proposed ...
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Prevalence of needle stick injury and its associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia, 2016
... dle stick injury was higher for nurses with work expe- rience greater than 10 years than those whose work experience is less than or equals to 5 years ...sustaining needle stick injury and those with ...
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Compliance with sharps waste standards by a sample of Sydney acupuncture premises
... that sharps disposal bins in acupuncture premises were often over- filled with sharps and located in areas where children could access ...of sharps waste in acupuncture ...of sharps disposal ...
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NEEDLE-FREE INJECTION SAFE. EASY. NO NEEDLE.
... Stratis Needle-Free Injector was approved for delivery of an influenza vaccine to deliver needle-free flu ...PharmaJet Needle-Free Injector is easy-to- use, eliminates needlestick injuries, ...
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Prevalence of needle stick and sharp object injuries and its associated factors among staff nurses in Dessie referral hospital Amhara region, Ethiopia, 2018
... of needle stick and sharp object injury in Dessie referral hospital was ...of needle stick and sharp object injury reported from the studies conducted in Addis Ababa, Arba Minch, Bahir Dar, ...
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