AN INTERVENTION PROGRAM ON BLOOD PROTOZOA ACQUIRED BY NEEDLE STICK INJURY AND INFECTION CONTROL

Preventing needle-stick injury.

Needle-stick injury: a rising bio-hazard.

BACKGROUND Needle stick injury has been identified as the foremost health allied concern and the specialty of dentistry is not an exception. Its incidence can be reduced when a dental practitioner is completely proverbial to the standard cross-infection control measures. This study was intended to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices among the dental practitioners regarding Needle Stick...

Mass needle stick injury in children from the Western cape.

Illegal dumping of contaminated medical waste occurs commonly in South Africa. There is little information on the management and outcome of the children exposed to and injured by medical waste. On 15 September 1999, 54 children where involved in a mass exposure incident. 44 presented the same evening and 10 following day. Used needles and syringes were discarded on their soccer field. Children ...

BrainSTARS: pilot data on a team-based intervention program for students who have acquired brain injury.

UNLABELLED To conduct and evaluate an educational/consultation program for parents and teachers of children who have acquired brain injury (ABI). PARTICIPANTS Parents, regular and special educators, and related school personnel of 30 students who had ABI and serious school problems. INTERVENTION BrainSTARS (Brain Injury: Strategies for Teams and Re-education for Students), an individualized...

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...