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Add more safeguards to ensure that the smallpox vaccination program is as safe as possible, a federal panel of medical experts urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
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If your vaccinated employees have red, swollen arms, swollen lymph glands, and fever, are they having an adverse reaction? Probably not, says William Schaffner, MD, professor and chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN.
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Employees are likely to have a wide range of questions about caring for their injection site and protecting others from contracting the disease. Here are a few questions and answers provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Death rates from influenza are rising with the aging of the U.S. population, and the virus now kills an average of 36,000 people a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new data underscore the need to protect vulnerable patients from nosocomial spread by vaccinating health care workers, public health experts say.
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When needlestick injuries occur, work practices often are a contributing factor. Training is an essential component of maintaining safe practices. And while bloodborne pathogen training may focus on specific protective devices, it also needs to address and correct some common misconceptions.
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How great is the risk of a smallpox attack? That question underlies the current campaign to vaccinate health care workers and military personnel and to offer the vaccinia vaccine to those who want it in the general public. The benefit of those vaccines cant be calculated without an estimate of the risk both of smallpox and of vaccine-related adverse events. Researchers at the RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, CA, have attempted to do just that.
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As hospitals prepare to vaccinate hundreds of health care workers, they face a host of opposing pressures.
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A tuberculosis standard requiring annual respirator fit-testing and skin testing is all but dead as the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) removed it from the proposed-rule stage.
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Employers will need to record hearing-loss cases in a separate column on the OSHA log beginning Jan. 1, 2004, the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) announced.
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In an unusual direct appeal to health care facilities, the chairman of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is asking for reports of nosocomial infections that result in patient deaths or permanent loss of function.
