Citation

Ganczak M, Barss PG, Al-Marashda A, Al-Marzouqi A, Al-Kuwaiti N. Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2007; 28(6): 751-754.

Affiliation

Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Publisher University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/518317

PMID

17520557

Abstract

We investigated the epidemiology and prevention of sharps injuries in the United Arab Emirates. Among 82 emergency nurses and 38 doctors who responded to our questionnaire, risk factors for sharp device injuries identified using the Haddon matrix included personal factors (for the pre-event phase, a lack of infection control training, a lack of immunization, and recapping needles, and for the postevent phase, underreporting of sharps injuries) and equipment-related factors (for the pre-event phase, failure to use safe devices; for the event phase, failure to use gloves in all appropriate situations). Nearly all injuries to doctors were caused by suture needles, and among nurses more than 50% of injuries were caused by hollow-bore needles.

Language: en