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- Title
Management of Needlestick Injuries.
- Authors
Henderson, David K.
- Abstract
The article discusses the management of needlestick injuries, based on a conference that took place at the Medicine Grand Rounds at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts on December 9, 2010. Studies have provided data on the risks associated with occupational exposures to blood from patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or those with unknown blood-borne pathogen status. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention designed the Universal Precautions guidelines to help reduce risks of occupational exposures. Actions that must be taken when health care workers are exposed include washing the wound or skin site, evaluating the risk of infection and the need for immediate wound care and prophylactic treatment. INSET: Summary of the Components of Universal Precautions.
- Subjects
BOSTON (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; NEEDLESTICK injuries; CONFERENCES &; conventions; MEDICAL centers; THRESHOLD limit values (Industrial toxicology); THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2012, Vol 307, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2011.1828