BACKGROUND Needle stick and sharp injuries were one of the major risk factors for blood and body fluid borne infections at health care facilities. OBJECTIVE To assess occupational exposure to needle stick and sharp injuries and associated factors among health care workers in Awi zone, 2016. METHODS institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted among 193 health care workers. Study ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of an education program and problem solving work group on nursing practices for prevention of needlestick and sharp injury. MATERIAL AND METHOD A quasi-experimental study design with a control group was conducted at the emergency and labor rooms in Sermngam Hospital, Lampang. All healthcare workers (HCWs) in the emergency and labor room were randomly assigned ...

FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, cattle have a tendency to chew and swallow foreign objects. Amon^ those which have been found in their stomachs are pieces of baling wire and barbed wire, bristles from wire brushes, hairpins, hatpins, knitting needles, pocketknives, different kinds of nails including horseshoe and roofing nails, staples, and scraps of various kinds of metals with sharp ends or cutting ...

Background. Aspirated thumbtacks are difficult to extract as the sharp edge of the thumbtack often is well imbedded within bronchial wall and its removal is technically demanding and may cause complications such as bronchial mucosal tear and bronchial wall perforation. These sharp metal objects are commonly removed using rigid bronchoscopy since their removal through flexible bronchoscopy is co...

traumatic injuries to great vessels are relative common in trauma practice. blunt thoracic trauma may result in dissection injury to aorta and innominate artery. we herein present a late presentation of traumatic innominate artery aneurysm. a29-year-old woman presented with dyspnea to our emergency department. she had previous motor-vehicle accident a month before presentation for which had und...