THIS book quickly reveals to anyone who has to see such injuries the wide experience and skill that the authors have to draw on. It is full of helpful clinical and practical operative advice where this is sought, but the real message of this edition seems to be encouragement to undertake more meticulous and extensive primary repairs. The classification of hand wounds into "Tidy and Untidy" imme...

  Background: Health care workers occupationally are exposed to blood and other body fluids which might increase their risk of acquiring blood-borne pathogens and psychological stress . The aim of the present study was to determine the lifetime occupational exposure to needlestick injuries and body fluids among doctors and medical students in Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (2009)...

background: post-exposure prophylaxis plays an important role in prevention of bloodborne diseases after occupational exposures. objective: to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of dentists towards post-exposure prophylaxis. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 140 dentists in shiraz were selected through a systematic randomized sampling. they filled out a self-made questionnaire inc...