Nurses face the risk of exposure to blood-borne infections if they suffer a needlestick or other injury from sharp devices such as lancets, scalpels and razors. In order to minimise their risk of contracting viruses such as HIV, hepatitis B and C, or other infections, risk assessment exercises must be undertaken so that safer systems of work can be implemented to protect nurses and other health...

Background: Poor disposal practices of insulin injection device among diabetes patients lead to the accumulation sharps within household and can potentially result in personal injury injuries people general community. Objective: This study was aimed assess knowledge self-reported practice associated factors Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Method: A hospital based cross-sectional employed 182 on follow-u...

Let D = {d n } be a countable collection of ∆ 1 3 degrees. Assuming that all co-analytic games on integers are determined (or equivalently that all reals have " sharps "), we prove that either D has a ∆ 1 3-minimal upper bound, or that for any n, and for every real r recursive in d n , games in the pointclasses ∆ 1 2 (r) are determined. This is proven using Core Model theory.

You have accessJournal of UrologyStone Disease: Surgical Therapy V (MP65)1 Sep 2021MP65-18 FEASIBILITY OF A SINGLE USE URETEROSCOPE RECYCLING PROGRAM Michael Borofsky, Seth Bechis, Thomas Chi, Casey Dauw, Marawan El-Tayeb, David Leavitt, and Noah Canvasser BorofskyMichael Borofsky More articles by this author , BechisSeth Bechis ChiThomas Chi DauwCasey Dauw El-TayebMarawan El-Tayeb LeavittDavid...

BACKGROUND Health staff in Afghanistan may be at high risk of needle stick injury and occupational infection with blood borne pathogens, but we have not found any published or unpublished data. METHODS Our aim was to measure the percentage of healthcare staff reporting sharps injuries in the preceding 12 months, and to explore what they knew about universal precautions. In five randomly selec...

background: waste produced in dental clinics has been the topic of investigations for many years. these waste materials have important health impacts and are hazardous to humans and the environment. objective: to investigating solid waste production and its management in dental clinics in gorgan, northern iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 45 of 143 public dental practices and 5 of 2...

Sir, Accidental needle stick and sharp object injuries carry major risk factors for blood-borne infections amongst health workers.[1,2] The blood-borne infections that are mostly contracted through occupational hazards are Hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).[3] The risk of transmission of these diseases following percutaneous exposure among h...

This cross-sectional study was performed in nine Montenegrin hospitals to estimate the burden of occupational exposure to blood among hospital workers in Montenegro in 2010 using a modified Croatian self-reporting questionnaire on exposure to blood-borne infections. Of the 1043 respondents, 517 (49.6 %) reported exposure to blood. Variations between the hospitals were not significant, except fo...