Contact with hospital syringes containing body fluids: implications for medical waste management regulation

• Egile Nagusiak: Volkow Patricia (Egilea), Jacquemin Bénédicte (Egilea), Vilar-Compte Diana (Egilea), Castillo José Ramón (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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OBJECTIVE: To determine amount of syringes used in the hospital and extent of contact with blood and body fluids of these syringes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Syringe use was surveyed at a tertiary care center for one week; syringes were classified into the following four categories according to use: a)...