Health care personnel are at increased risk of contracting blood borne pathogens due to their occupational exposure to blood and body fluids [1-4]. More than twenty diseases can get transmitted through needle stick injuries including Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV [5]. Occupational exposure to blood can result from percutaneous injury (needle stick or other sharps injury), mucocutaneous injur...

aim: injury from needle is one of the main ways of transmitting blood diseases in the medical staff. prevention and reduction of such diseases' side effects have been emphasized by the health ministry. this study aimed to investigate factors influencing the behavior of the elam city medical staff when working with sharps instruments. methods: in a cross-sectional study, using a census method, a...

Background and Objective: A needle stick injury is a percutaneous piercing wound typically set by aneedle point, but possibly also other sharp instruments or objects. Needle injuries are more commonamong health workers during night shifts, for less experienced people, fatigue, high work load, highpressure, perception of risk can all increase the chances injury. The present study wasconducted wi...

A 24-year-old woman was treated with zidovudine, lamivudine, characteristic pattern; (5) long-term renal dysfunction, if any, is and indinavir because of a needle-stick injury. Baseline laboratory unknown, especially in HIV-negative individuals; and (6) indievaluation revealed the following: serology for antibodies to HIV navir-induced crystalluria can be diagnosed in the office with use was ne...