Needlestick Injuries

Blood Exposures Reduced By Using Safety Device for Subcutaneous Injections

Published in Blood Weekly, August 17th, 2000

Risk of exposure to blood can be reduced if safety devices are used to provide subcutaneous injections of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH), researchers in France say.

"Subcutaneous injections account for an increasing share of total needlestick injuries," reported I. Durand-Zaleski and colleagues from several facilities in France, who conducted a study "to document the possible cost-savings related to the introduction of a protected needle (safety shaft) used to administered LMWH."

Durand-Zaleski et al. presented data from their study at the 10th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, held in Stockholm, Sweden. The...

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