Patient to surgeon infections—fact or fiction

Nyström, Per‐Olof; Wittmann, D. H.

doi:10.1002/bjs.4383

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“…Transmission of blood‐borne infections (e.g., HVB and HVC) or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), from surgeon to patient or from patient to surgeon is an avoidable health problem, e.g. needlestick during surgery [13, 14]. There are no available data yet, but the risk of transmission can be decreased by surgical techniques reducing the use of needles and sharps.…”

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Use of Ligasure in Thyroidectomy Procedures: Results of a Prospective Comparative Study

2005

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The thyroidectomy procedure requires many manupulations to achieve prompt hemostasis. This study assessed whether the outcomes of thyroidectomy using the Ligasure electrothermal vessel sealer were comparable with the conventional suture-ligation technique. We prospectively evaluated 58 consecutive patients who underwent thyroidectomy. Patients were allocated into two groups according to their preference. There were 30 patients in the Ligasure group and 28 patients in the conventional surgery group. Complications, operating time, and hospital stay were compared between the two groups and suture-ligations performed in the Ligasure group were recorded. The age, sex, and indications were similar in the two groups (p > 0.05). Complication rates and hospital stays did not show any difference according to the techniques used. Operating time was shorter in the hemithyroidectomy and total thyroidectomy patients of the Ligasure group (mean +/- SD: 77.38 +/- 13.71 vs. 99.80 +/- 12.53 minutes, p = 0.005; and 102.50 +/- 16.69 vs.128.89 +/- 19.74 minutes, p = 0.010). The mean +/- SD number of suture-ligations for each patient in the Ligasure group was 1.83 +/- 2.12. Thyroid surgery using the Ligasure is safe, and its complication rates are comparable to these found with the conventional surgical technique. Use of the Ligasure during hemithyroidectomy and total tyhroidectomy operations provides a significantly shorter operating time.

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Use of Ligasure in Thyroidectomy Procedures: Results of a Prospective Comparative Study

2005

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“…19,20 The technique of double gloving has been shown to reduce the risk of contamination of the surgeon's hands in multiple studies (either due to tears or perforations). 6,18 Based on this, Nystrom and Wittmann 13 have calculated the risk of a surgeon operating on HIV patients actually contracting HIV from hollow needles whilst double gloved; from their calculations a surgeon can expect to acquire HIV infection at rate of 1 in every 800 hollow needle stick injuries. Lemaire et al 11 argue that the annual rate of a surgeon, irrespective of discipline, in Europe contracting HIV from occupational exposure is between 0.125 and 3%.…”

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Current practice in the management of high-risk orthopaedic trauma patients in Scotland

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“…Следует учитывать тот факт, что 1 мл крови может содержать при ВГ В от 1,5 до 150 млн инфицирующих доз, при ВГ С -от 1 до 100 тыс. [4, 12,13]. количество крови, достаточное для инфицирования ВГ В при нозокомиальном пути передачи, составляет 0,00004 мл [11].…”

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The Attitude of Medical Staff, Including the Senior Students of the Medical Institute, to the Problem of Chronic Viral Hepatitis B and C

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Orlova

et al. 2012

Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

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The attitude of medical personnel, including the senior students of the medical Institute, to the problem of chronic viral hepatitis B and C. In the article the data of the sociological research performed among the medical personnel of various medical institutions of Ivanovo, and also students of V and VI courses of the State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "The Ivanovo state medical academy" of Ministry of Health of Russia, to determine a position of medical workers on a problem of communication of chronic virus hepatitises (VH) B and C are presented. It became clear that the majority of health care workers have to provide care to VH patients in the conditions of shortage of knowledge and ignoring of necessary means of protection, and 18,5% of medical workers have a negative attitude to the VH patients, restricting them in necessary parenteral manipulations.

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Patient to surgeon infections—fact or fiction

Abstract: Occupational safety has its limits

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Use of Ligasure in Thyroidectomy Procedures: Results of a Prospective Comparative Study

Use of Ligasure in Thyroidectomy Procedures: Results of a Prospective Comparative Study

Current practice in the management of high-risk orthopaedic trauma patients in Scotland

The Attitude of Medical Staff, Including the Senior Students of the Medical Institute, to the Problem of Chronic Viral Hepatitis B and C

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