Gatto and coworkers analyze dental care workers (DCW) injuries which occurred in the Department of Oral Sciences of the University of Bologna over a 13-year period, with the aim of assessing if additional safety precautions or modification of current procedures are needed. Their findings show that the device more frequently involved in accidents is the needle for local anaesthesia (41% of percu...

Previous studies have demonstrated that sharps-related infectious disease is a global concern. Several papers have also reported that students are at a higher risk than healthcare workers. The prevalence of sharps exposure in China, however, is unknown. This study explored the incidence of sharps exposure and its related risk factors among students in all academic years and majors at a medical ...

As mass COVID-19 vaccination programs roll out across the country, we are potentially faced with compromising workers’ health for sake of broader public health, as it relates to occupational exposure contaminated needles and syringes. We have opportunity provide recommendations that advance protection workers through industrial hygiene hierarchy controls, especially in light twentieth anniversa...

Current understanding of viral hepatitis transmission in United States health care settings indicates progress over the past several decades with respect to the risks from transfusions or blood products. Likewise, risks to health care providers from sharps injuries and other blood and body fluid exposures have been reduced as a consequence of widespread hepatitis B vaccination and the adoption ...

To investigate the interactions between safety climate, psychosocial issues and Needlestick and Sharps Injuries (NSI), a cross-sectional study was undertaken among nurses at a university teaching hospital in Japan (89% response rate). NSI were correlated with various aspects of hospital safety climate including supporting one another at work, the protection of staff against blood-borne diseases...

OBJECTIVES For decades, Erich arch bars have been a standard in establishing maxillo-mandibular fixation (MMF). While reliable, the approach risks sharps injury, consumes operating room time, and inflicts gingival trauma. Newer technologies including screw-based techniques and "hybrid" techniques have improved MMF by reducing sharps injuries and operating room time, but risk injury to tooth roo...

Sharps injury prevention programs are intended to reduce the risks associated with the use of needles and other sharps. The goal of such programs should be to provide protection to everyone in the facility — from the sharps users, such as nurses and physicians, to those who may come in contact with the sharp after use, such as housekeeping personnel, visitors, or waste handlers. These programs ...