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1. • • Needlestick and other sharps injuries are a serious hazard in any healthcare setting. Contact with contaminated needles, scal-pels, broken glass, and other sharps may expose healthcare workers to blood that contains pathogens which pose a grave, potentially lethal risk.
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     How to Prevent Needlestick and Sharps Injuries

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   Do safer sharps devices reduce needlestick injuries?

   • Sharps-related injuries carry the risk of serious blood borne infection. A systematic review was undertaken to consider the evidence related to safer sharps devices and their impact on needlestick injury reduction within the healthcare sector.

   Sharps injuries - Further information - HSE

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   Are sharps injuries a risk?

   • Sharps injuries are a well-known risk in the health and social care sector. Sharps contaminated with an infected patient's blood can transmit more than 20 diseases, including hepatitis B, C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Because of this transmission risk, sharps injuries can cause worry and stress to the many thousands who receive them.

   Heath and social care services - Sharps injuries

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   Are Sharps a hazard?

   • All sharps injuries are therefore a hazard that could lead to the risk of transmission of blood-borne viruses. Some injuries will be a higher risk than others. mortuary work. Groups that carry out the majority of procedures using sharps are those most at risk.

   Sharps safety - Royal College of Nursing

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   What is the risk of a sharps injury involving hollow-bore needles?

   • There is a higher risk of infection from a sharps injury involving hollow-bore needles. Higher risk procedures include intra-vascular cannulation, venepuncture and injections and use of IV cannulae, winged steel-butterfly-needles, needles and syringes and phlebotomy needles.

   Heath and social care services - Sharps injuries

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   Can sharps injuries be prevented?

   • Most sharps injuries can be prevented, and there are legal requirements placed on employers to take steps to prevent health care staff being exposed to infectious agents from sharps injuries, so far as it is reasonably practical to do so. Who’s at risk?

   Sharps safety - Royal College of Nursing

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   Are Sharps safe to use?

   • All staff (clinical and non-clinical) should be educated in the safe use and disposal of sharps and the action to take in the event of an injury. Sharps containers should be situated in a safe and secure place and not accessible to patients or visitors.

   Safe management of sharps - Infection Prevention Control

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3. www.hse.gov.uk › healthservices › needlesticksSharps injuries - What you need to do - HSE

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   All sharps should be disposed of carefully at the point of use. This means that suitable sharps containers should be portable enough to take to the activity, and designed specifically to allow...

4. www.hse.gov.uk › healthservices › needlesticksHeath and social care services - Sharps injuries

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   The main risk posed by needle-stick injury to workers is exposure of the worker to blood-borne viruses (BBV)

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6. www.rcn.org.uk › - › mediaSharps safety - Royal College of Nursing

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   Lancets, scalpels, suture needles, razors, scissors, test tubes and even fragments of bones or patients’ teeth can all cause sharps injuries. i Blood and body exposures in 2020 (RCN 2021) rcn.org.uk/professional-development/publications/ rcn-blood-and-bodily-fluid-exposures-uk-pub-009-687.

7. www.healthline.com › accidental-needle-stickAccidental Needle Stick: What to Do Next - Healthline

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   Nov 23, 2022 · An accidental needlestick injury can happen in an instant. These types of injuries, also called “sharps injuries,” happen when a needle or another sharp object punctures your skin. These...

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9. www.infectionpreventioncontrol.co.uk › wp-contentSafe management of sharps - Infection Prevention Control

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   Prevention of inoculation incidents. An inoculation incident is where the blood/body fluid of one person could gain entry into another person’s body, such as: A sharps/needlestick injury with a used instrument or needle. Spillage of blood or body fluid onto damaged skin, e.g. graze, cut, burn.

10. www.clinicalguidelines.scot.nhs.uk › nhsggcNeedlestick injuries and exposure to blood and high risk body ...

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    Needlestick injuries and exposure to blood and high risk body fluids: initial action plan. Collapse all. Immediately following exposure. Apply First Aid: Encourage local bleeding of accidental puncture wounds by gently squeezing. DO NOT SUCK THE AREA. Wash the affected area with soap and warm water. DO NOT SCRUB THE AREA.

11. www.hse.gov.uk › healthservices › needlesticksSharps injuries - Further information - HSE

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    Sharps-related injuries carry the risk of serious blood borne infection. A systematic review was undertaken to consider the evidence related to safer sharps devices and their impact...