introduction: needle stick injuries (nsi) are major occupational hazards for health care workers. objectives: this study aimed to determine the epidemiology of needle sticks and sharp injuries among nurses of an iranian teaching hospital. materials and methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009 on 328 nurses in a health center in tehran. stratified random samples were...

Result 85 samples from health care workers who had needle stick injury were processed .The samples were from doctors (38%), nurses (20%), technicians (7%), housekeeping staff (23 %), and students (10%). All the samples of injured persons were found seronegative by both methods, anti-HBs titer was found to be protective. Conclusion Strict HBV vaccination program and monitoring the anti-HBs titer...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: It's important to know outcome of needle stick injury in health care facilities. This study will help to know policy regarding prevention of needle stick injury in health care setting. Copyright © 2013, Kowsar Corp.; Licensee Kowsar Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attributi...

INTRODUCTION This case report describes an unusual injury to the neck, caused by a ski stick, sustained by a skier on a dry ski slope. The majority of equipment-related skiing injuries involve the ankle, knee and lower leg and are influenced by skiing experience and quality of ski binding; Young et al (1976). Johnson et al (1980) found that 80% of lower extremity injuries were equipment related...

Needle stick injuries are a common event in the healthcare setting. When drawing blood, administering an intramuscular or intravenous drug, performing other procedures involving sharps, needle can slip and injure worker. This sets stage to transmit viruses from source person recipient. These also commonly occur during recapping as result of failure place used needles approved sharps containers....

background: exposure to blood-borne pathogens from needle-stick and sharp injuries continues to pose a significant risk to health care workers. these events are of concern because of the risk to transmit blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus, and the human immunodeficiency virus. objective: to benchmark different risk factors associated with needle-stick incidents am...

A case of injury to the left thumb following an errant stick check, and subsequent entrapment of the digit in the open sidewall of a lacrosse stick, is presented. A circumferential laceration, severe swelling, and bruising to the proximal phalanx resulted. This case report emphasises the need to limit the dimensions of openings in the sidewalls of lacrosse sticks to prevent the occurrence of th...