نتایج جستجو برای: needle stick injury nsi

تعداد نتایج: 362496  

2014
AO Adefolalu

Sir, Accidental needle stick and sharp object injuries carry major risk factors for blood-borne infections amongst health workers.[1,2] The blood-borne infections that are mostly contracted through occupational hazards are Hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).[3] The risk of transmission of these diseases following percutaneous exposure among h...

2016
Abdul Rafay Qazi Furqan Ali Siddiqui Salman Faridi Urooj Nadeem Nida Iqbal Umer Zainab Saeed Mohsini Muhammad Muzzammil Edhi Mehmood Khan

BACKGROUND Needle stick injuries (NSIs) have the potential of causing Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, which is constantly adding to the burden of chronic liver disease in our country. It poses a risk to Health Care Workers (HCWs) and the patients they deal with. In order to limit the spread of these viruses, it is imperative that these HCWs be fully equipped with knowledge regarding prevention of ...

Journal: :Journal of tropical pediatrics 2006
N de Waal H Rabie R Bester M F Cotton

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 ...

Journal: :archives of hygiene sciences 0
sahar geravandi razi teaching hospital, clinical research development center, ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences, ahvaz, iran. sasan moogahi neda kayedi ahmad reza yari monireh hedayat shajirat shohre

background & aims of the study: the sharp injuries (sis) are a percutaneous piercing wound caused by a sharp instrument. needle sticks and sharp injuries (nssis) can increase the incidence of cases of hepatitis b, c and hiv. the purpose of this study was to investigation of the relative frequency of nssis in healthcare workers (hcws) in ahvaz, iran (razi hospital) over 3-year period (2011–2013)...

Journal: :Rural and remote health 2009
Peter Hulme

The World Health Organisation estimates there are approximately 3 million cases of needlestick injury (NSI) in healthcare workers (HCW) each year, with 90% of these occurring in developing countries 1 . Student nurses are thought to be at high risk of NSI due to poor technique, inexperience and poor use of universal precautions 2 . There has been little research into the incidence of NSI in Afr...

2009
Afia Zafar Faiza Habib Roshan Hadwani Muslima Ejaz Khurshid Khowaja Rozina Khowaja Seema Irfan

BACKGROUND Accidental exposure to blood and body fluids is frequent among health care workers. They are at high risk of nosocomial transmission of blood borne pathogens due to injuries caused by used sharps. We are reporting impact of surveillance and educational program on the rate of needle stick injuries among health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan. METHODS At Aga Khan...

2017
James P. Dalton Benedict Uy Simon Swift Siouxsie Wiles

Larvae of the insect Galleria mellonella are increasingly being used for studying pathogenic microbes and their virulence mechanisms, and as a rapid model for screening novel antimicrobial agents. The larvae (waxworms) are most frequently infected by injection of pathogenic organisms into the haemocoel through the insect's prolegs. The mostly widely used method for restraining the waxworms for ...

2015
Abeer A. Omar Naglaa M. Abdo Mona F. Salama Haifaa H. Al-Mousa

OBJECTIVE The study aimed at determining the prevalence of incident occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) among healthcare personnel (HCP) during 2010 and at evaluating the factors associated with these incidents. SUBJECTS AND METHODS An epidemiological, retrospective, record-based study was conducted. All self-reported incidents of occupational expo...

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