Universal Precautions and Distrust

KAP Regarding Universal Precautions among nursing students

Background: The new wave of nosocomial infections arising from various medical settings as well as other related environment has been of much concern for some time. The fact that blood and other fluids from patients are becoming increasingly hazardous to those who provide care for them had become of great concern to public health professionals the world over. This study was conducted to assess ...

Compliance with universal precautions among pediatric residents.

BACKGROUND There are few data on the rate of compliance with universal precautions among pediatricians. We hypothesized that compliance in pediatrics would be poor because of the intrinsic difficulties in performing invasive procedures in small subjects. DESIGN Prospective, observational study. SETTING Tertiary care children's hospital. STUDY PARTICIPANTS A convenience sample of pediatric...

Universal precautions revisited: managing the inherited pain patient.

"Universal Precautions in Pain Medicine: A Rational Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Pain" was published in 2005. In it, a unified 10-step approach to the assessment and management of patients suffering from chronic pain was proposed. As well, a triage scheme of risk stratification was offered. By placing patients into risk categories of low, medium, or high (Groups I, II, and III), it beca...

Adherence to universal precautions among laboratory personnel in Lebanon.

To evaluate the present situation and plan future directions with regard to implementation of universal precautions in laboratories testing blood samples, we carried out a national cross sectional study in 2003 on a representative sample of laboratories in Lebanon. We compared the results with those of a 1993 study. We found that the education profile of staff had improved, being now more speci...

AIDS update: Part I. Incorporating universal precautions during anesthesia care.