The CDC, through the National Center for Infectious Diseases, offers a free, downloadable brochure addressing what healthcare personnel need to know when they are exposed to patients' blood.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health provides a free, downloadable brochure for patients titled, "Helpful Reminders About MRSA Infection."
Proposed legislation that would require certification of all newly hired surgical technologists in New York has been sent to the office of N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo for his signature, according to a New York Association of Surgical Technologists news release.
OSHA's bloodborne pathogens standard (29 CFR 1910.1030) requires employers to make immediate confidential medical evaluation and follow-up available for workers who have an exposure incident, such as a needlestick. An exposure incident is a specific eye, mouth, other mucous membrane,…
Tyson Cobb, MD, a hand and orthopedic surgeon at Orthopaedic Specialists in Davenport, Iowa, has been cited by the Iowa Board of Medicine for wrong-site surgery and other violations, according to a Quad-City Times report.
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Parvez Dara, MD, an oncologist from Toms River, N.J., has had his medical license revoked after 29 of his patients tested positive for Hepatitis B, according to a Statehouse Bureau report.
David A. Smith, MD, has accepted a three-year probation to settle allegations that he allowed an unlicensed individual to perform Botox on patients, according to a KSDK report.
The University of Virginia, International Health Care Worker Safety Center, provides a free, downloadable checklist intended to help facilities comply with the sharps safety requirements of OSHA's bloodborne pathogens standard.
The requirements of OSHA's bloodborne pathogens standard can be found in Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations at 29 CFR 1910.1030. The standard's requirements state what employers must do to protect workers who are occupationally exposed to blood…
Becker's ASC Review recently received a question from a reader concerning radiology requirements for ambulatory surgery centers included in the revised Conditions for Coverage that took effect in May 2009.