Document 0929
 DOCN  M9440929
 TI    Safety issues, risks, and precautions for dermatologic surgery.
 DT    9404
 AU    Robinson JK; Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
       60611.
 SO    Cutis. 1993 Dec;52(6):345-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/94123588
 AB    The use of universal precautions can provide an effective barrier to
       transmission of viral infections. The most common route of occupational
       human immunodeficiency virus transmission to a health care provider is a
       self-inflicted needle stick with a contaminated needle. Use of the
       no-touch suturing technique in dermatologic surgery can lower the risk
       of such self-inflicted needle sticks.
 DE    Ambulatory Surgery/INSTRUMENTATION/METHODS  Equipment Safety  Health
       Facility Environment  Human  HIV Infections/PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/TRANSMISSION  Occupational Diseases/PREVENTION & CONTROL
       Protective Clothing  Protective Devices  Risk Factors  *Safety
       Management/METHODS/ORGANIZATION & ADMIN  Skin Diseases/*SURGERY  Suture
       Techniques  *Universal Precautions/INSTRUMENTATION/METHODS  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE

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