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Welcome to the ISIPS Newsletter |
October 30, 2009 |
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USA News
Ogden takes steps to stop spread of H1N1
Man Gets 90 Days For Exposing Duluth Woman To HIV
Global News
Zimbabwe: HIV Positive Rapist Jailed 45 Years
HIV-Positive Orphans
AIDS experts say Russia needs new HIV strategy
UK's hepatitis C campaign targets South Asians
Chronic Hepatitis B Infection Could Rise In Australia
Survey: 30% of China's Hepatitis B patients can't afford
long-term treatment
Most hepatitis C infections amongst men in Sydney linked to
injecting drug use
Avian Flu
Pandemic flu
India declared free of bird flu
Evidence of transmission of avian flu found
Swine Flu
H1N1: Should we be worried?
Shortage
in Masks, Vaccine Underscore Federal Preparedness Problems
Triple antiviral combination stops H1N1 flu in lab tests
Swine Flu Emergency: What Does It Mean?
Medical News
Hepatitis B
is more infectious than the HIV virus and causes cancer
Hepatitis C coinfection doesn't increase risk of progression to
AIDS
Scientists Create the Largest HIV Evolutionary Tree
Scientists Find That All HIV Patients Experience Increased Risk
Of Heart Disease
Md. health officials report 2 deaths related to swine flu
City Parents Opting Out of Swine Flu Vaccine
1 Million More Doses of Swine Flu Vaccine on Hand
West Nile
West Nile
claims life of Modesto piano teacher, 85
The SAFhandle™ Safety Scalpel Blade and Reusable Metal Handle System The SAFhandle™
safety scalpel system is a logical re-engineering of the conventional scalpel
blade and handle- designed to achieve the optimum balance between employee
safety and the effective delivery of optimal healthcare while mitigating costs.
PROTECTION
DURING USE WITH ENHANCED PERFORMANCE Step 1
Push the upper handle jaw tab slightly up and gently open the upper jaw of the
handle in the direction of the arrow (clockwise) till the jaws are open wide
enough to receive the blade. Do not force the jaws beyond the jaw stop pin. Step 2 Holding a SAFhandle™ blade of matching fitment size with a hemostat and using fitment pins as guides seat the blade on the handle as shown. Ensure the blade is seated flat.
Step 3 Now
close the jaws of the handle together till the handle tab locks with the handle
jaws lock pin The SAFhandle™ is ready for
use. Step 4 To remove the blade open the jaws of the handle a described in step 1. Then turn handle over and drop blade into a sharps count container. Click here for more information
DriFloor™ Absorbent Pad
For more information click here.
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In This Issue
Postexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection
Safety syringe heads to market
Alert for three types of flu over winter
Difficult-to-Treat Patient Populations Respond Positively to
Hepatitis C Treatment
Doctor tied to hepatitis flap loses license
Swine Flu Is Widespread in 46 States as Vaccines Lag
Obama declares swine flu a national emergency
Health care providers must respond to HIV-related stigma
Women denied health insurance for 'pre-existing conditions' of
pregnancy
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 Luminetx Corporation
Real Needlestick and
Blood Exposure Stories
I was working at a medic unit on an OD who was not breathing.
Thankfully, the medics started a line instead of using a saline
lock. Anyhow, one of the medics pushed the Narcan, and the patient
was a dissatisfied customer.
He attacked all of us, and did so before the medic who was next to me had a chance to get rid of the needle. Needle, meet Patrick's face. I went to the ER, and they told me that because they used a line instead of a saline lock, it was far enough away from the patient that there was no chance of contact with his blood. First one was while cleaning up an ICU room after a patient was discharged. The nurse was taking the linens off of a bed and throwing them on the floor. I was bundling the linens off the floor when a needle stuck into my palm. No one could figure out if the 18 gauge needle (without a syringe) was used, used for what, or what it was doing in the bed in the first place. This was at the time the hospital was going needle-less and not everything was needle-less, namely the drugs. My theory was someone drew something up and had to remove the needle to administer it in the needle-less port. How the patient did not get stuck is a mystery. Still did the testing and such. Second, stuck by a nurse in an ER. Not the brightest nurse in the first place, but she decided that medical floor nursing was not cut out for her so transferred to the ER. While working a COR, I was pumping the chest and she just gave the patient something (think it was Epi) and managed to stab me in the tricep as she turned to put it in the sharps. She claimed I backed into her, which changed to I did not remain still as she called out "Sharps", thus it was my fault. Doc reamed her so bad that I did not have the heart to say anything. She mysteriously disappeared after two other shifts. Had to do the testing for this too. Risk Management was getting to know me too well.
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 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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