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Needlecaps to Prevent Needlestick Injuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Walton Sumner II
Walton Sumner II*
Affiliation:
University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas
*
5020 Thomason, Columbus, GA 31909
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Abstract

Hospital employees are at risk for numerous possible complications of accidental needlesticks. The mechanisms of such accidents suggest that many are preventable. This article presents a simple but novel revision of the needlecap which facilitates resheathing of a used needle. With routine use the hospital environment could be made safer for virtually all employees at almost no additional cost. Ultimate hospital savings could be significant through prevention of injury.

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Original Articles
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 6 , Issue 12 , December 1985 , pp. 495 - 497
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1985

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