INDIAN PEDIATRICS 111 VOLUME 42__FEBRUARY 17, 2005 Pediatricians know well that health care injections brought much public health benefit in the 20th century, particularly through providing a vector to administer life-saving vaccines. However, health care injections have also turned into a health hazard. First, physicians and other prescribers have an excessive recourse to injections for condit...

background and objectives: exposure to contaminated needlesticks and sharp devices is an important occupational hazard among healthcare workers. the objective of this study was to gain further insight into prevalence and risk factors of needlestick and sharps injuries among healthcare workers. methods: a cross-sectional survey was carried out among 384 healthcare workers of two hospitals in ne...

Healthcare workers (HCWs) are exposed daily to the risk of injury by needlesticks and other medical instruments. However, the psychiatric impacts of such injuries have not been evaluated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the mental health status of HCWs with experiences of needlestick and sharps injuries. A cross-sectional written survey was performed. The psychological symptoms before inj...

We investigated all reported Percutaneous exposure incidents (PEI) among staff from a large Australian hospital in the 3-year period, 2001-2003. There were a total of 373 PEI, of which 38.9% were needlestick injuries, 32.7% were cutaneous exposures and 28.4% sharps-related injuries. Nurses were the most commonly affected staff members, accounting for 63.5% of the total, followed by doctors (18....

BACKGROUND Medical waste is infectious and hazardous. It poses serious threats to environmental health and requires specific treatment and management prior to its final disposal. The problem is growing with an ever-increasing number of hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic laboratories in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. However, research on this critical issue has been very limited, and there is a serious...

BACKGROUND Current WHO best infection control practices for injections do not address the use of hub cutters due to insufficient evidence on safety and efficacy. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of the use of hub cutters on 1) the frequency of needle-stick injuries (NSIs) and other blood exposures among workers and 2) the volume of sharps waste in a mass vaccination campaign setting. METHODS ...

Objective: To determine the frequency and risk factors of bloodborne infectious diseases among informal solid waste handlers. Study Design: Cross-sectional Analytical study. Setting: Marghzar Colony, Lahore, Pakistan. Period: October to November 2019. Material & Methods: Convenience enrollment 101 handlers out total 150 invited subjects resulted in a response rate 67.3%. A predesigned profo...