Health care personnel are at increased risk of contracting blood borne pathogens due to their occupational exposure to blood and body fluids [1-4]. More than twenty diseases can get transmitted through needle stick injuries including Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV [5]. Occupational exposure to blood can result from percutaneous injury (needle stick or other sharps injury), mucocutaneous injur...

Background and Objective: A needle stick injury is a percutaneous piercing wound typically set by aneedle point, but possibly also other sharp instruments or objects. Needle injuries are more commonamong health workers during night shifts, for less experienced people, fatigue, high work load, highpressure, perception of risk can all increase the chances injury. The present study wasconducted wi...

A 24-year-old woman was treated with zidovudine, lamivudine, characteristic pattern; (5) long-term renal dysfunction, if any, is and indinavir because of a needle-stick injury. Baseline laboratory unknown, especially in HIV-negative individuals; and (6) indievaluation revealed the following: serology for antibodies to HIV navir-induced crystalluria can be diagnosed in the office with use was ne...

Research has identified more than a dozen functions of non-suicidal self-injury (NSI), but the conceptual and empirical overlap among these functions remains unclear. The present study examined the structure of NSI functions in two large samples of patients receiving acute-care treatment for NSI. Two different measures of NSI functions were utilized to maximize generalizability of findings: one...

OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency, cause and potential cost of prevention of hollow-bore dirty needlestick injury (NSI) sustained by healthcare workers. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Ten-year prospective surveillance study, 1990-1999, with triennial anonymous questionnaire surveys of nursing staff. SETTING 800-bed university tertiary referral hospital in Brisbane, Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEAS...