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- Subject: AIDS Alert for Health Care Workers, Vol 1, Num 1
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- AIDS ALERT FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS
-
- VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1
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- AIDS Alert for Health Care Workers is an index to journal articles
- and occasional papers that address the occupational health and
- safety concerns of health care workers who are providing care for
- patients with AIDS. The Alert is annotated and compiled by
- Charlotte Broome of the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's Education
- and Life Sciences Library. Issues of the Alert will appear three
- to four times per year.
-
- For further information about the Alert, contact Bob Jackson,
- Librarian for Education & Life Sciences:
-
- LIBR8508@RYERSON
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- Correspondence concerning the Alert can be addressed to:
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- Ryerson Polytechncial Institute
- Library, Education & Life Sciences
- 350 Victoria Street, Toronto,
- Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3
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- The ALERT is distributed electronically by the Institute for AIDS
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- ACCIDENTAL EXPOSURE - PREVENTION
-
- (See also PRECAUTIONS - DEVICES; PRECAUTIONS - GUIDELINES,
- PROTOCOLS & RECOMMENDATIONS; PRECAUTIONS - SURFACE CLEANING)
-
- Citation: AIDS and the nurse. Barnard, Jacqueline.
- Canadian Nurse 83(6), June 1987. p. 15-17 (5 ref.)
- Abstract: One nurse's experiences and fears after an accidental
- needlestick injury introduce the topic of basic precautions and
- recommendations for preventing HIV infection in the healthcare
- setting.
-
- Citation: Effects of changing needle disposal systems on needle
- puncture injuries. Krasinski, Keith and others. Infection
- Control 8(2), Feb. 1987. p. 59-62 (14 ref.)
- Abstract: A hospital study of needle puncture injuries showed
- that changing the needle receptacle changed the type but not the
- overall number of needle-related injuries. The study pointed to
- the need to develop innovative approaches to help health care
- workers change the behaviours which contributed to the injuries.
-
- Citation: Impact of a rigid, puncture-resistant container system
- upon needlestick injuries. Ribner, Bruce S. and others.
- 1 Infection Control 8(2), Feb. 1987. p. 63-66 (10 ref.)
- Abstract: A hospital study found that disposal-related
- needlestick injuries decreased with a rigid container, but that
- procedural injuries continued and even increased in spite of
- awareness education. Further study is needed to prevent these
- types of injuries.
-
- Citation: Mouth-to mouth resuscitation - is there a safe,
- effective alternative? Birdsall, Carole and Ruggio, James.
- American Journal of Nursing 87(8), Aug. 1987. p. 1019
- Abstract: This presents a brief discussion of bedside
- resuscitation devices for use in non-critical care areas in
- hospital, against the background of preventing infection of
- staff by patients they resuscitate.
-
- Citation: Needlestick injuries: an occupational health hazard
- for nurses. Carter de Carteret, Janet. AAOHN Journal 35(3), Mar.
- 1987. p. 119-22 (26 ref.)
- Abstract: AIDS is only one of several diseases which may be
- transmitted by accidental needlesticks. This article examines
- the need to minimize this type of injury, and eight steps to do
- so.
-
- Citation: Recapping the accidental needlestick problem. Huber,
- Kathryn and Sumner, Walton. American Journal of Infection
- Control 15(3), June, 1987. p. 127-30 (9 ref.)
- Abstract: Suggestions to prevent "during-use" and "after-use"
- needlestick accidents involving nursing and housekeeping staff
- are discussed.
-
- Citation: ResusciAnnie proves safe. Valadez, Lucila and Garcia,
- Rebecca. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing 18(5), Sept.-
- Oct. 1987. p. 160-62 (5 ref.)
- Abstract: After fears arose that infectious diseases such as
- hepatitis B or AIDS could be transmitted by CPR-training
- mannequins, a hospital study showed that the AHA (American
- Hospital Association) cleansing protocol using a solution of
- sodium hypochlorite is effective in preventing transmission of
- these and other organisms. The researchers suggest that the
- study be repeated using alcohol or other recommended cleansing
- solutions.
-
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- ACCIDENTAL EXPOSURE - RISK
-
- (See also NEEDLESTICK INJURIES - PREVENTION; PRECAUTIONS -
- DEVICES; PRECAUTIONS - GUIDELINES, PROTOCOLS & RECOMMENDATIONS)
-
- Citation: National surveillance programme on occupational
- exposure to HIV among health-care workers in Canada. Update.
- Canada Diseases Weekly Report 13(37), Sept. 19, 1987. p. 163-65
- Abstract: After outlining six precautions to prevent
- occupational exposure to bloodborne infections, the article
- describes the results to date of its surveillance programme of
- Canadian health care workers who have been exposed to HIV at
- 1 work. It also suggests ways of preventing exposures in the
- majority of these incidents.
-
- Citation: Occupational risk of HIV, HBV and HSV-2 infections in
- health care personnel caring for AIDS patients. Kuhls, Thomas L.
- and others. American Journal of Public Health 77(10), Oct. 1987.
- p. 1306-08 (19 ref.)
- Abstract: A 9-12 month experimental study of health care workers
- suggests that if infection control practices are used when
- workers care for AIDS patients or their biological specimens,
- risk is low for occupationally acquired AIDS, hepatitis B or
- herpes simplex virus.
-
- Citation: Three caregivers become HIV-antibody positive after
- blood spills {Clinical News] 87(7), American Journal
- of Nursing July 1987. p. 903
- Abstract: This news item gives a follow-up of previous news
- reports of three health-care workers who tested HIV-positive
- after long-term exposure to body fluids. It also gives
- suggestions of what to do if one is exposed.
-
- Citation: Transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus.
- Friedland, Gerald H. and Klein, Robert S. New England Journal of
- Medicine 317(18), Oct. 29, 1987. p. 1125-35 (122 ref)
- Abstract: A review of 122 references between 1981-1987 examining
- exposure risk to HIV "strongly supports the conclusion that
- transmission of HIV occurs only through blood, sexual contact
- and perinatal events", and that a single exposure is unlikely to
- transmit the virus. Close personal contact between patients and
- healthcare workers or household members itself does not increase
- risk, but risk increases with unprotected exposure to body
- fluids in these contacts.
-
- Citation: Update: human immunodeficiency virus infections in
- health-care workers exposed to blood of infected patients.
- International Nursing Review 34(5), Sept.-Oct. 1987. p. 136-39
- Abstract: This article reprints the report in MMWR [Morbidity
- and Mortality Weekly Report], May 22, 1987. To that date, nine
- healthcare workers in the U.S.A. had been reported to have
- developed HIV infections after exposure to infected patients'
- body fluids. These incidents emphasize the need for workers to
- follow infection-control guidelines to minimize risk. The
- article repeats HIV risk control guidelines.
-
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- ATTITUDES
-
- (See also PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESSES & COPING)
-
- Citation: AIDS update: how nurses feel about AIDS. Marram van
- Servellen, Gwen and others. Nursing '87 17(10), Oct. 1987. p. 8
- (4 ref.)
- Abstract: This column summarizes results of a recent survey of
- Californian nurses, which examined attitudes towards caring for
- AIDS patients, counselling, and knowledge of symptoms and
- 1 precautions.
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