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The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has endorsed the use of blunt suture needles and is poised to begin an educational push to reduce one of the most persistent remaining causes of sharps injuries.
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Violations of the bloodborne pathogen standard are occurring regularly in operating rooms and procedure rooms across the country. The culprit: pre-packaged kits and trays.
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Janine Jagger was working on integrating airbags in cars when her colleagues at the University of Virginia told her about another safety problem: Health care workers stuck with needles were at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, as well as other bloodborne diseases.
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The CDC's interim guidance regarding personnel protection equipment (PPE) for respiratory infections is confusing because the wrong experts are making selection decisions based on the wrong criteria.
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Health care workers are more likely to receive post-exposure treatment after a bloodborne pathogen exposure than they were 10 years ago.
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As the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina so dramatically showed, the initial community response to a natural disaster or terrorist attack has to be local.
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A recently published planning document by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations outlines 13 essential components of an effective community-based emergency management planning.
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Studies using computed tomography have shown that patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) typically have a cephalocaudal gradient in the distribution of lung density, with the greatest density (and collapse) in the lung bases adjacent to the diaphragm.
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It has been said that "medicine is a science, patient care is an art and healthcare is a business." To that end, physicians wear three hats, and must possess a broad range of skills to perform their jobs effectively. This demand is acutely evident in the tasks of an intensive care unit (ICU) director.
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