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  2. Needlestick injury - Wikipedia

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    Needlestick injuries are among the top three injuries that occur among material-recovery facility workers who sort through trash to remove recyclable items from the community-collected garbage. [41] Housekeeping and janitorial workers in public sites, including hotels, airports, indoor and outdoor recreational venues, theaters, retails stores ...

  3. Pin prick attack - Wikipedia

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    A pin prick attack is an assault on another person with a needle or syringe tainted with the blood of somebody carrying a blood-borne disease, such as HIV.Although there have been numerous cases of people being attacked with needles and syringes, the idea that people infected with AIDS have deliberately attempted to infect others in this manner is generally considered an urban legend: Real ...

  4. Venipuncture - Wikipedia

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    A 1996 study of blood donors (a larger needle is used in blood donation than in routine venipuncture) found that 1 in 6,300 donors sustained a nerve injury. [5] Risk and side affects can include a variety of things. Dizziness, sweating, and a drop in your heart rate and blood pressure. [6]

  5. Karen Daley - Wikipedia

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    Karen Daley is an American nurse, past president of the American Nurses Association, former director of the American Nurses Credentialing Center and an advocate for the prevention of needlestick injury in healthcare. Daley, a former emergency room nurse, sits on the boards of trustees for several organizations.

  6. Talk:Needlestick injury - Wikipedia

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    Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Needlestick injury. PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles) The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine. Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

  7. Needle and syringe programmes - Wikipedia

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    Covered topics included the public health rationale behind NEPs (71%), police occupational health (67%), needle stick injury (62%), NEPs' legal status (57%), and harm reduction philosophy (67%). On average, training was seen as moderately effective, but only four programmes reported conducting any formal evaluation.

  8. Tram derails and crashes into shop in Oslo injuring four - AOL

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    OSLO (Reuters) -A tram derailed and crashed into a store in central Oslo on Tuesday, injuring the driver and at least three other people, Norwegian police said. The blue tram of the Oslo transport ...

  9. Sharps waste - Wikipedia

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    In addition to needles and blades, anything attached to them, such as syringes and injection devices, is also considered sharps waste.. Blades can include razors, scalpels, X-Acto knives, scissors, or any other items used for cutting in a medical or biological research setting, regardless of whether they have been contaminated with biohazardous material.