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Needlestick injury among medical personnel in Accident and Emergency Department of two teaching hospitals.

April 18 marked 10 years since the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act took effect.

KEYWORDS Needlestick injuries / Sharps injuries / Penetrating wounds / Stab wounds

More recently, pediatricians in Montreal reported on 274 patients with community-acquired needlestick injuries.

As a vocal, nationally recognized advocate for legislation mandating the use of safer needle devices in health care practice settings, President Daley has traveled throughout the world raising awareness among nurses, legislators, and health care administrators on the importance of needlestick prevention.

Daley was among those invited to the Oval Office to witness President Clinton sign the "Needlestick Safety Prevention Act," into law on Nov.

John Salstrom, CEO, said the unique spring-activation feature distinguishes the Protectus Safety Syringe and its entire line of safety needle devices from all others and, like no other, has the very real potential to significantly reduce accidental needlestick injuries automatically without any action by users.

LESS than half the healthcare workers in Delhi's hospitals know how to treat the needlestick injuries they sustain while treating patients.

Concerned about the serious risk to nurses from needlestick injury, the ANF is calling for the Federal and State Governments to fund safer access devices as well as provide consistent rules around needlestick injury.

Needlestick injuries constitute a recognized physical hazard, but few studies have been conducted to document the magnitude of the problem among SW.

Blunt needles for reduction of needlestick injuries during cesarean delivery.

A culture that resists change may be one reason sharps injuries in operating rooms keep rising despite enactment of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of 2000, MedPage Today reports.