With increased scrutiny and regulation to prevent the spread of bloodborne infectious diseases, there is an urgent need to develop and implement safer injection systems such as these to better prevent needlestick injuries
across the entire healthcare ecosystem.
The World Health Organization estimates that of the 35 million healthcare workers around the world, two million people suffer accidental needlestick injuries
Safety injection devices, which include safety syringes and safety needles, are designed to enhance safety of the drug administration process and eliminate needlestick injuries
- a major cause of blood-borne infections.
Approximately 80 percent of needlestick injuries
can be prevented, according to ISIPS Executive Director Ron Stoker.
In a sense, accidental needlestick injuries
are reuse, albeit unintentional.
LESS than half the healthcare workers in Delhi's hospitals know how to treat the needlestick injuries
they sustain while treating patients.
Research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds hospital rates of needlestick injuries
nurses say needlestick injuries
and blood borne infections remain major concerns, and 55 percent believe their workplace safety climate negatively impacts their own personal safety.
ANA is conducting a survey entitled 2008 Study of Nurses' Views on Workplace Safety and Needlestick Injuries
to evaluate the registered nurses beliefs, opinions and views related to the use of safety syringes in the prevention of needlestick injuries
and related workplace safety.
the annual cost of testing and treating needlestick injuries
in Ontario's health care is $64 million;
However, the CTB-1 needle moves through the tissue very smoothly, and there is almost no perceptible difference between the CTB-1 and the conventional CT-1 needle--except that with the CTB-1, needlestick injuries
to the obstetrician simply do not occur.
HBV, HCV, and HIV are the pathogens most often transmitted in documented cases of occupational infection following needlestick injuries
in industrialized countries.