The purpose of this report is to discuss management of operating room personnel who have had occupational exposure to blood and other body fluids that might contain hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I). HBV postexposure prophylaxis includes starting hepatitis B vaccine series in any susceptible ...

results higher levels of stress were due to the fear of being infected by hiv and hepatitis patients with mean of 3.2 and 58%; and lack of weekends with mean of 3 and 44%. the lowest levels of stress were related to inadequate skills with mean of 2.18 and 32%, and environment light with mean of 2.14 and 34.7%. stress was significantly related to job status, conflict of doctors and nurses as wel...

HYPOTHESIS Preoperative briefings have the potential to reduce operating room (OR) delays through improved teamwork and communication. DESIGN Pre-post study. SETTING Tertiary academic center. PARTICIPANTS Surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other OR personnel. INTERVENTION An OR briefings program was implemented after training all OR staff in how to conduct preoperative briefings t...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to identify who sustains needlestick and sharps injuries, under what circumstances and what actions are taken to minimize the risk and in response to intraoperative NSSIs. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 on 215 operation room personnel in 14 hospitals of the Hormozgan province, Iran. RESULTS Two hundred and fifty appropriate responders completed t...

BACKGROUND Surgical site infections (SSI) contribute to surgical patients' morbidity and costs. Operating room traffic may be a modifiable risk factor for SSI. We investigated the impact of additional operating room personnel on the risk of superficial SSI (sSSI). PATIENTS AND METHODS In this matched case-control study, cases included patients in whom sSSI developed in clean surgical incision...

background & aim: operation as a stressor can induce physical and psychological negative reactions. considering the anxiety prevalence as the most important sign and symptoms before surgery, on one hand, and the necessity of patients’ mental preparation as the most essential care before surgery, on the other hand, the importance of primary communication of medical centers’ staff would be determ...

there has been a recent development and explosion of interest among academicians across a wide range of disciplines in the use of virtual class room. utilization of the virtual class room as a laboratory experimentation for teaching and learning has increased significantly in recent years as development tools for web based applications have become easier to use and computers have become more ca...

To effectively characterize newly recognized viruses (Marburg, Lassa, etc.) and to study other highly virulent infections for which no effective prophylaxis or therapy exists, special containment facilities must be utilized and conventional techniques modified to minimize risk to laboratory personnel. This paper describes a laboratory suite for such studies, contained within a larger research f...