What to do after needlestick injury?

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Venous thromboprophylaxis: reducing needlestick injury

be substantial and may increase with the long-term treatment of associated serious infections (Lee et al 2005). The incidence of needlestick injury is under-reported (Wilburn and Eijkemans 2004). Approximately 75% of these injuries are thought to be preventable by informing and educating healthcare professionals on the appropriate procedures to minimise the risks associated with handling and di...

Psychiatric consequences of needlestick injury.

BACKGROUND Needlestick injuries (NSIs) are a common occupational hazard with potential physical health effects, including viral infections such as hepatitis and HIV. Less appreciated are the psychiatric consequences of NSIs, potentially including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and adjustment disorder (AD). AIMS To study psychiatric consequences of NSIs by diagnosis, duration and severi...

Occupational Malaria Following Needlestick Injury

1878 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 10, No. 10, October 2004 from randomized controlled trials are lacking. All of our patients had been previously healthy, with no coexisting conditions identified as poor prognostic risk factors (2,10). These three cases, together with the case of Wong et al. (1), suggested that at least a subset of SARS adult patients can have a relativ...