Needle Sticks in Phlebotomists: Too Much Ado About a Rare Event

Autor:	David H. Vroon, Myrna Cott, John E. McGowan
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) business.industry Health care medicine General Medicine Medical emergency Glove use medicine.disease business Disease control Occupational safety and health Surgery
Zdroj:	JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 264:1408-1409
ISSN:	1538-3598 0098-7484
Popis:	To the Editor.— Dr Pate1pointed out that the "continuing debate in regard to the magnitude of risks to health care workers involved in treating patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome frequently generates dogmatic opinions unsupported by fact." The same can be said for some human immunnodeficiency virus-releated govenmental regulations that are directed at phlebotomists. The major risk for transmission of blood-borne infections during blooddrawing procedures is due to needle sticks, which glove use cannot prevent.2,3Despite this, proposed Occupational Safety and Health Aministration guidelines require gloves for all phlebotomists for all procedures whereexposure to blood is possible.4This proposal ignores recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control that skilled phlebotomists be given the choice of whether or not to wear gloves.5Phlebotomy rarely involves worker contact with body fluids, except when the employee is inexperienced or has sores or dermatologic conditions of the hands; in
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