HEPATITIS Risk to Healthcare Workers
Hepatitis B infection represents a significant occupational hazard to all workers who contact blood or body fluids from patients infected with the hepatitis B virus. All soiled medical Devices should be assumed to be contaminated with unidentified microorganisms.
The long term risk of HBV infection in workers with frequent blood contact varies between 15 and 30 percent. The following are examples of the specialties and job categories that have been shown to be at increased risk of HBV infection: pathologists and pathology laboratory staff, surgeons and surgical residents, pediatricians, clinical laboratory staff and technicians, internists, dentists and dental technicians, emergency room staff, dialysis unit workers, operating and recovery room staff, IV therapy teams, intensive care unit nurses, hematology and oncology ward staff, blood bank personnel.
HEPATITIS
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver which can be caused by various toxins, medications or infectious agents. Most infectious hepatitis is caused by viruses; some of these viruses are identified by the letters "A" and "B" and one or more are grouped under the designation "non A/non B". The hepatitis B virus is frequently shortened to HBV and the infection caused by this virus is called hepatitis B.
Although many people with hepatitis may feel or look ill, up to 50 percent of people with a hepatitis B infection will be unaware that they have contracted the virus. Hepatitis B is a frequent cause of sporadic hepatitis in the United States. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) surveys estimate that 200,000 new infections occur here each year and nearly 10 percent of those infected become "chronic carriers" of the hepatitis a virus. About 10,000 people are hospitalized each year with HBV infections.
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HEPATITIS Risk to Healthcare Workers
It is clear that many health care workers are at substantial risk of HBV infection. Appropriate work practice in the care of all patients, especially those with a current HBV infection, should reduce the incidence of HBV infections in this group of workers.
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