original article   musculoskeletal problems, resulting from lifting and transferring patients, are often reported among hospital orderlies worldwide. the purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence and factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders in thai hospital orderlies. this cross sectional study was conducted in a government tertiary care hospital (2,221-bed hospital) in bang...

(1) BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal disorders have a multifactorial etiology that is not only associated with physical risk factors, but also psychosocial risk factors; (2) OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the effects of an ergonomic intervention on musculoskeletal disorders and psychosocial risk factors; (3) MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study took a participatory ergonomic (PE) approach with a random...

was imported from any other station. 2nd ?I do not think the disease was in any case contracted through personal communication with an individual already suffering from enteric fever. It is worthy of remark, however, that three of the patients lived permanently on the hospital premises: three were employed as orderlies attending on cases of cholera in August and September ; and five had recentl...

On a beautiful evening of April, 1943, I gave a talk on elementary psychology to a small party of R.A.M.C. orderlies and convalescent patients at a detached hospital at Gibraltar. But this simple talk led up to a series of events of which to-night is one. At the end of my short talk, an orderly rose and said: " Sir, will you tell us what night-nurse's paralysis is ? " I looked at him, thought, ...

Methods We used a structured observational method to collect data about infection control practices amongst surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses, cardiopulmonary bypass technicians and orderlies practicing in the cardiac operating room during open-heart surgery at Mater Dei Hospital. To prevent bias, we did not disclose the actual procedures observed to the surgical team members, who however knew th...

OBJECTIVE To assess the level of knowledge regarding viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) among healthcare personnel at two largest tertiary care hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS A cross sectional convenience survey was conducted in February 2001 among doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and janitors/orderlies of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and Civil Hospital, Karachi. The question...

Hospitals and healthcare industries, which are required to perform patient care and non-patient related tasks, are complex organisations. They count on an extremely diverse group of professions, which are many of them physically demanding [1]. To a certain extent for this reason, hospital and healthcare workers are at particularly high risks for work-related injuries. The problem of work-relate...

Chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) incidents have the potential to shut down emergency departments that do not have an adequate CBR response. Secondary contamination also poses a threat to the safety and wellbeing of staff and other patients. On activation of a CBR response, "clean" and "contaminated" areas should be clearly marked, and all patients decontaminated before being allowed ...