needlestick injury
percutaneous injury

One million workers a year are affected by needlestick injuries.

In addition, please find a report relating to needlestick injury here.

Needlestick injuries are a common event in the healthcare environment.

People who received blood products before 1992 and health care workers exposed to needlestick injuries are also at risk.

It is estimated that there are 1 million needlestick injuries in Europe each year6.

How common are needlestick injuries among health care workers?

Although these and other procedures may decrease the rate of needlestick injuries, some will continue to happen.

Blood contact can also occur during accidents, including needlestick injuries.

For instance I would like to see a specific directive on needlestick injuries.

Health care workers who use or may be exposed to needles are at increased risk of needlestick injury.

The risk of exposure to needlestick injury is influenced by occupation.

Needlestick injuries and potential body fluid exposure in the emergency department.

Despite published guidelines and training programs, needlestick injuries remain an ongoing problem.

Within the medical community, specifically among physicians, needlestick injuries are generally considered "part of the job".

Only 2 to 5ul of blood are needed to transmit the virus during a needlestick injury.

An overall reduction of 43.4% in total needlestick injuries from all procedures and events occurred.

Hepatitis B is the most likely infection that your child may get from a needlestick injury.

Technology is now the key which contributes to more than 88 per cent of prevention for needlestick injuries.

Assess the risk of needlestick injuries for individual tasks.

She worked as an emergency room nurse for many years until sustaining a needlestick injury on the job in 1998.

Nurses exposed to violence in their patients' households were nearly three and a half times more likely to also report needlestick injuries.

Hepatitis B poses the greatest risk to health care workers following needlestick injuries.

Moreover, reporting a needlestick injury was associated with a detrimental professional impact.

Needlestick injuries have long been a concern for many health staff since cases started emerging of infections being transmitted.

Summary Prevention of needlestick injuries is an important consideration for health care workers and their employers.

All the patients had handled live or freshly killed fish, and eight had percutaneous injuries.

Active safety devices can reduce percutaneous injury rates significantly.

Dentists who used gloves routinely reported fewer percutaneous injuries.

The authors stated that most percutaneous injuries are preventable, and many might be prevented with the use of passive devices.

Respondents reported a mean of 4.2 percutaneous injuries and 2.2 mucous membrane splashes in the previous year(483).

At least 40% of percutaneous injuries were reduced during phlebotomies by the use of active safety devices(508).

Forty-five percent of percutaneous injuries may have been prevented by proper handling and disposal of used needles.

Canadian dental staff are most likely to be exposed to patients’ blood or saliva through percutaneous injuries in laboratory work, clean-up, and instrument preparation(493).

Engineering safeguards Occupational acquisition of bloodborne pathogens occurs most frequently following percutaneous injury from needles and other sharp instruments.

The highest percentages of percutaneous injuries were due to needles for injection (23%) and needles for drawing blood (14%), followed by suture needles145.

No office protocol existed for reporting or recording injuries from needle sticks or other percutaneous injuries involving sharp instruments or devices.

Nineteen percent of the percutaneous injuries were from hollow-bore needles and 22% were from cuts; the remainder were caused by suture needles (67%).

Nosocomial sharp injuries HCWs may be exposed to bloodborne pathogens during the course of their work, and percutaneous injuries are the main risk of exposure.

Sharps injuries Injuries caused by percutaneous injuries or cuts. Source The person, animal, object, or substance from which an infectious agent passes to a host(23).

The rate of percutaneous injuries caused by needle sticks focuses the need to tailor sharp/needle stick prevention programs or preventing injuries that involve hollow-bore needles inserted into blood vessels.

Data from five hospitals participating in the U.S. National Surveillance System for Hospital Health Care indicated that in 1998, 98% of devices that caused percutaneous injuries did not have safety mechanisms(84).

A model based on a 15-month study of blunt suture needles showed that the estimated odds of a percutaneous injury were reduced by 87% when 50% of the suture needles used were blunt(55).

The frequency of handling various needles and sharps (i.e. hollow-bore needles, solid needles, scalpels, and other sharps) was an important risk factor for percutaneous injury among nursing and direct patient care staff.

Either exposure to a large volume of blood or exposure to blood with a high titre of HIV,HCV,HBV or percutaneous injury with a soiled, solid surgical needle.

For recommendations on reducing the risk of percutaneous injuries, refer to Health Canada’s Infection Control Guidelines Preventing the Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens in Health Care and Public Services Settings(85).

NaSH is a voluntary system used by hospitals to report occupational percutaneous injuries, exposure to blood & other bodily fluids, & other information corresponding to the prevention of occupational exposures & infections among US HCW.

The first study of risks to patients reported 400 patients 'operated' on by an HIV-infected urologist. 80% of procedures were endoscopies, which are low risk in terms of percutaneous injury for the surgeon and therefore also presumably for the patient.

One CDC study on percutaneous injuries during phlebotomies showed 74% of the safety features for vacuum-tube blood collection needles and 60% of the safety winged steel needles were activated when devices in the safety disposal container were examined.

Although aggregate data showed a decline in percutaneous injuries due to winged steel needles and in the proportion of percutaneous injuries associated with blood withdrawal, examination of data from individual hospitals revealed no changes over time(532).

When the risk of percutaneous injury is high, double gloving has been shown to decrease the volume of blood involved in needle stick exposures and, therefore, double gloving may be practised, depending on the level of risk of the procedure (e.g., surgery, autopsies, police searches).