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Welcome to the ISIPS Newsletter |
August 28, 2009 |
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USA News
North Miami man to sue Veterans Administration over HIV
infection
27
cases of hepatitis C in Colorado now linked to suspect
Hepatitis
cases spur safety measures
VA Negligence Suits Likely After Botched Colonoscopies
HIV-positive drifter gets 15 years for biting Miami cop
17% of Chicago...Men are HIV-positive
Global News
Safer Blood Collection For Africa
South Africa: Massive Twin Burden of HIV And TB
Indian police raid alleged illegal blood bank
Avian Flu
Officials Test Local Birds for Bird Flu
Bird flu leaves the nest -- adapting to a new host
Swine Flu
Swine Flu Was a Warning Shot. How Can We Do Better Against the
...
H1N1 Flu Fears
Half the US could get swine flu, report warns
Hospitals test readiness for possible swine-flu pandemic
How bad will swine
flu be, really?
Medical News
CDC mulls routine circumcision of infants to reduce spread of
HIV
In an effort to reduce the spread of the AIDS-causing HIV virus, the Centers for Disease Control are currently mulling routine circumcision...
West Nile
Wash. reports its first 2009 human West Nile case
UCR researchers discover what attracts mosquitoes
Discovery of natural odors could help develop mosquito repellents
Help protect your staff from sharps injuries with the Allen Needle Triever. This suture needle retrieval system has a large magnetic surface to easily pick up any ferrous needles and sharps as small as .15 mm (.006") diameter.
Our unique design allows this magnetic sweeper to reach under the surgical table and other hard-to-reach places. The lightweight aluminum is easy to use, clean and store. The long handle, more than 3 feet, means you don’t need to bend over to find lost sharps.
For more information click here. Access Scientific
In 1953, the newly introduced Seldinger
Technique represented a significant improvement in vascular access
technology. Later, the Modified Seldinger Technique further advanced
ease-of-access, by using a dilator coupled with a sheath, and eventually
evolved into today’s standard, over-wire insertion technique. Despite its
advantages, hazards are associated with the Modified Seldinger Technique.
These include: accidental needlestick injury, guidewire
embolus,contamination, bleeding, lost cannulation during the procedure… and
more. The WAND enables healthcare
The WAND is an all-in-one (needle-guidewire-dilatorsheath) safety introducer that speeds over-wire vascular access while reducing the risk of guidewire embolus, contamination and accidental needlestick injury. Experienced clinicians are hailing The WAND as the new standard in vascular access technology—faster, safer and simpler. The Accelerated Seldinger Technique reduces the number of exchanges and steps necessary for vascular access. It reduces the risk of air embolism, contamination, guidewire embolus, loss of cannulation during the procedure, and accidental needlestick injury. For more information click here.
EZ Huber® Safety Infusion Set An Easy-to-Use, Power Injectable Venous Access System Safety, Speed and Comfort
Special features that enhance clinical safety:
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In This Issue
Notes from the field: YUCK! You got PUS, WHERE?
As I was finishing up an OSHA training class, I saw a physician running down the hall. We all turned around trying to figure out what had happened. I went to see if I could help in any way. I found the physician standing over the sink gulping and spitting out water. The medical assistant proceeded to tell me what had happened.
Probation revoked for woman who gave fake flu vaccine
Ask the expert: Safety devices and non-contaminated needles
Poisoned blood: UP gets tough
Are Some Individuals Deliberately Spreading HIV/AIDS in the...
Satellites Used to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Swine Flu Could Infect Half of U.S.
OSHA Violations
...recent citations issued
ISIPS Corporate Members
Please click on any ISIPS member below to
view their sharps safety products!
Amgen
Immunization
Branch-California Dept. of Health Services
ANFIM - Association of Needle-free Injection Mfrs Canadian Intravenous Nurses Association (CINA)
Sarstedt
Center for Phlebotomy Education, Inc.
Managing Infection Control Magazine Medical Safety Technologies, Inc. Luminetx Corporation
Real Needlestick and
Blood Exposure Stories While trying on a denim jacket at a Macy's department store, the woman put her hand into one of the jacket pockets and pricked her finger on a hypodermic needle, which had apparently been left in the pocket with some other drug paraphernalia. She could not sleep, had panic attacks, cried all the time, and worried constantly about her future and that of her family if she contracted AIDS. She never tested positive for HIV and as late as three years after the needle stick, had no hepatitis-related infection. A hotel guest was stuck by a used hypodermic needle concealed in the tube of a roll of toilet paper. Evidence showed the needle was likely used by a known intravenous drug user on the hotel staff. Two years of biennial AIDS tests and three years of annual tests of the plaintiff were negative for AIDS.
The new VACUETTE® QUICKSHIELD Complete PLUS is now available!
The VACUETTE® QUICKSHIELD Safety Tube Holder with pre-attached VACUETTE® VISIO PLUS Needle sterile and single-packed:
To view a video on the new VACUETTE® QUICKSHIELD Complete PLUS click here. ChaSyr™ Prefilled Syringe
The ChaSyr DDS is a prefilled, multi–chamber, sequential delivery syringe. In a nutshell, it means that the syringe has more than one medication chamber separated by a rubber stopper with a valve that keeps the medications disparate and prevents air/gas from passing through the valve. The syringe comes prefilled with saline or heparinized saline in the posterior chamber. The clinician aspirates medication into the front chamber using conventional practices. The ChaSyr DDS is then connected to a Y-site where the multiple medications are then injected into the patient serially. After infusion of the medication from the front chamber, the clinician simply continues to push the syringe plunger. When the rubber stopper (ChaSyr valve) comes in contact with the tip of the syringe a valve opens allowing the saline solution in the back chamber to flow through the valve thus flushing the Y-site and IV line of the original medicant and leaving a saline lock in the system. The ChaSyr DDS with its prefilled inline post-flush simplifies nursing procedure, reduces line manipulations and line breaks by up to 50% thereby reducing contaminations rates and nosocomial infections. For medications that are patient specific, a pharmacist/nurse is able to easily and accurately prepare and deliver an entire measured dose through a port/spike fluid pathway and into the IV container with safety. This assures that the entire measured dose reaches the patient. Let's look at how an infusion of a hazardous drug with the ChaSyr DDS product would work. Looking at figure 1
It is shown that rear chamber of the ChaSyr DDS has a prefilled saline flush, the front chamber of the ChaSyr DDS is filled by the pharmacist with the drug of choice and a saline lock is placed in an extension set with a clamp. Looking at figure 2 -
The clinician removes the cap from the extension set (only clinician exposure is to saline) and attaches the extension set to the catheter. After opening the clamp, the syringe plunger is pushed thus infusing the saline pre-flush then the drug through the IV. Looking at figure 3 -
The plunger is continued to be pushed until the valve in the first plunger is activated. Saline then flushes the hazardous medication from the Y-site and the IV catheter thus rendering the catheter free of medicant and filled with the flush solution. |
SPECIAL BOOKMARKS
ISIPS Articles
Managing Infection Control articles written by Ron Stoker Most Recent Articles on Top April 2009 - Safety Enhancements for Blood Culture Processing-Protecting Staff From Harm April 2009 - Neuropathy Testing - One of the Challenges of Diabetes April 2009 - Where to Find Safety Products - Part Four March 2009 - Sharps Safety Matters - Where to find Safety Products - Part Three February 2009 - Advances in Internal Bone Fixation - Sharps Safety for Orthopedic Surgeons February 2009 - Sharps Safety Matters! - Where to find Safety Products Part 2 January 2009 - Sharps Safety Matters! - Where to find Safety Products Part I December 2008 - 2008 International Sharps Injury Prevention Awards November 2008 - Sharps Injuries - just part of the job, right? October 2008 - Eye Can See Clearly Now - the Positive use of face shields as PPE September 2008 - Safety Scalpels - State of the Market Report August 2008 Revolutionary Designs - New passive, self-sheathing safety syringe June 2008 - One Less Problem - Safe Practices When Administering IV Therapy May 2008 - Scalpel Safety - Protecting patients and clinicians April 2008 - Working in Harms Way - Understanding Sharps Safety Compliance April 2008 - PPE Practices - Use of Personal Protective Equipment in Satellite Locations March 2008 - Simply Safe- Providing safety for the needle that saves lives November 2007 - A Fortune to Share -Changing attitudes toward sharps safety. June 2007 - OSHA’s Most Cited Hospital Violations - Strategies for Creating a Safe Workplace May 2007 - OR Safety - Improvements in Sharps Safety in the Operating Room May 2007- Safety Product Review - Use Safety Products to Improve Staff and Patient Safety. April 2007- Needlestick Safety-Not just a U.S. problem. Feb 2007 A Change Of Heart - Set Goals To Improve Your Teams Safety Jan 2007 Stuck at Work - Use Safety Blood Draw Products To Avoid Needlestick Injuries September 2006 -Evaluating Safety Products - Decision Making in the Selection of Safety Products August 2006 -Safety Peripheral IV Catheters - State of the market report June 2006 BESIDE THE POINT: Safety Huber Needles 2006 - State of the Market Report May 2006 - Zero Needlesticks— A Goal We Can Live With! Current OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Citations April 2006 - A Change of Heart - Set Goals to Change Your Team's Sharps Safety February 2006 - How Can You Tell If Your OSHA inspection is going poorly? Part II January 2006 Sharps Injury Prevention Resource Guide December 2005 - The International Sharps Injury Prevention Awards August 2005 - The Compendium of Infection Control Technologies June 2005 - Selection of Safety Scalpels April 2005 - Point Taken - Comply or Pay the Price January 2005 - May I see your ID, please? Patient and Medication Misidentification January 2005 - Safety in Urine Sampling December 2004 Issue - The 2004 International Sharps Injury Prevention Awards October 2004 Issue - Managing Diabetes without Jabbing Anyone Else! July 2004 Issue - Steering Clear of Danger - IV Infection Prevention June 2004 Issue - Smallpox 2004 - Are we prepared if our worst fears come true April 2004 Issue - Sharps Injury Prevention in the Operating Room December 2003 Issue - To The Point: Safety Huber Needles December 2003 Issue - 2003 Sharps Injury Prevention Award Winners (html version) or Click here for pdf version September 2003 Issue - Focus on ISIPS by MIC staff June 2003 Issue - End of the Line May 2003 Issue - A Special Report on Smallpox - Vaccination and Dressings March 2003 Issue - Stuck in the ER - Sharps Safety in Emergency Rooms February 2003 Issue - Birth of Occupational Safety in Labor and Delivery December 2002 Issue - Sharps Safety Matters October 2002 Issue - Healthcare Managers Re-tooling for Compliance by Dennis J. Ernst April 2002 - Global Needlestick Prevention Group Formed to Highlight Safety Products
Additional Articles
Anatomy
of Needlestick Injury; Ron Stoker, Business Briefing: Global
Healthcare- Advanced Medical Technologies 2004- Infection Control and
Epidemiology
Specially designed syringes maximize flue vaccine supply - Syringes
reduce costs and and increase healthcare worker safety and patient comfort
Safety Wound
Closure Presentation
Not Just
painful, Deadly! Patients aren't the only ones scared of Needles By Ron
Stoker |
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Links
Immunization Branch, California Department of Health Services ANFIM - Association of Needle-free Injection Manufacturers International Association of EMTs and Paramedics AOHP - Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare CINA - Canadian Intravenous Nurses Association Center for Phlebotomy Education |
Academy for Safety Excellence
Terry Jo Gile, MT (ASCP),
MA Ed. The Academy for Lab Safety Excellence is a program designed by Safety Lady LLC to help you make the transition from bench tech to lab safety officer. You will learn to navigate the world of laboratory safety from the Safety Lady. You will discover the secrets to lab safety excellence that has taken others years to acquire. You will be able to network with colleagues to help you solve your most challenging safety issues.
You can expect:
The overall objectives are:
The requirements are:
The scheduled start time for all Academy webinars will be 10 am PDT 11 am MDT 12 pm CDT 1 pm PDT A preview webinar will be held on September 22 at 11 am MDT.
For more information
please contact Terry Jo Gile, the Safety Lady, at
info@safetylady.com or call
toll free 877-894-7004. |
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