Adrenaline syringes: community perspective

Adrenaline syringes are vastly over prescribed.

Allergy is being seen more and more commonly. A recent review of accident and emergency admissions in England reported 415 anaphylactic cases (adults and children) from 100 000 referrals in 1991/92, but 876 in 1994/95. Death following anaphylaxis is most feared but fortunately remains a very rare event, currently estimated at less than one case per year per million of the UK population. There i...

Commentary: purchasing community perspective.

Syringes and syringomyelia.

The earliest description of cavities in the cord is generally ascribed to Charles Estienne (1504–c.1564) in La dissection des parties du corps humain... Paris, 1546. But the fi rst use of the term ‘syringomyelia’ was probably that of Charles P. Oliviers d’Anger in De la moelle épinière et ses maladies in 1824; in a later two-volume work he described: ‘Syringomyélie ou cavité centrale dans la mo...

Shielded safety syringes.

To the Editor: The results of the study, “Impact of a Shielded Safety Syringe on Needlestick Injuries Among Healthcare Workers,” in the June 1992 issue (1992;13:349353) are encouraging. Technology that keeps the worker’s hands behind the needle at all times and covers the needle after use should significantly lower the rate of needlestick injuries. However, we noted the following inconsistencie...

Risk assessment, a community perspective.

The deficiencies associated with current risk assessment and negligible risk methodologies used to protect public health and the environment during the current epidemic of environmentally induced diseases serve as the imperative for moving ahead with a program to phase out hazardous pesticides and to implement alternatives. With the release of the National Academy of Sciences June 1993 report, ...