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Transmission of HIV in health care workers
Journal of Thoracic Imaging, 1991Health care workers may be occupationally exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The risk of infection is highest with accidental needlestick and similar percutaneous exposures. Emphasis should be placed on avoiding this type of accident. Strategies to prevent accidents and to manage exposures once they have occurred should be developed in each
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Health Care Worker Safety in Surgery
AORN Journal, 2011AbstractNursing is ranked as one of the occupations with the most incidences of workplace‐related injury and illness. The six types of injury risk specific to the perioperative environment are biological, ergonomic, chemical, physical, psychosocial, and cultural in nature.
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Quarantine, Isolation, and Health Care Workers
Continuum, 2015Although Ebola virus disease and other hemorrhagic fevers are not generally considered infectious diseases of the nervous system, neurologists may be asked to participate in the management of patients with these and other dangerous communicable illnesses, including possible bioterrorism agents. It is essential for all health professionals to understand
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AIDS: The Impact on the Health Care Worker
2015Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has posed many dilemmas for health care workers and tapped into numerous fears. Health care professionals whose main professional task is to cure and to heal have been confronted with a disease with an unknown cause no known cure and a life-threatening nature.
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Health care workers and tuberculosis
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 2000R L, Stuart, M L, Grayson
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