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Gloves and Dermal Exposure to Chemicals
Published in Robert N. Phalen, Howard I. Maibach, Protective Gloves for Occupational Use, 2023
Due to the lack of available studies, criteria for biomonitoring studies to be suitable for deriving dermal protection factors were proposed by Oltmanns et al.61 This criterion included the following elements: compliance with good epidemiological and biomonitoring study requirements; sufficient data; consideration of background exposure; detailed information about the evaluated PPE and tasks; correct application/use of PPE; reliable pre-shift values; individual evaluation of protection factor, not group means; and other exposure routes should be excluded (e.g., inhalation) or controlled.
Care of Survivors of Torture and Trafficking
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
For healthcare workers, ‘protection’ is the main component, and this means ‘meeting individuals’ health needs and helping to keep them safe from harm’. To achieve this, services should be provided within what is called ‘the sphere of protection’.14
CBRN and the Trauma Victim
Published in Ian Greaves, Keith Porter, Jeff Garner, Trauma Care Manual, 2021
Ian Greaves, Keith Porter, Jeff Garner
This should include removing the patient’s clothing before entering the ambulance or medical facility and all personnel in the patient’s vicinity wearing PPE for contact precautions (gown, nitrile gloves and consider eye + face protection). If there is a continuing hazard from off-gassing or contagious disease, the number of personnel who are potentially exposed should be limited and those operating at the head end of the patient (for example, airway practitioners) should consider enhanced respiratory protection.
Cannabis-Impaired driving: ethical considerations for the primary care practitioner
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2023
Katherine Huerne, Carolyn Ells, Roland Grad, Kristian B. Filion, Mark J. Eisenberg
The duty to report is a way for practitioners to fulfill beneficence by stopping potentially harmful situations. This duty is often a professional obligation set by governing bodies of the jurisdiction or medical institution. Generally, reporting cannabis-impaired driving to legal authorities should occur as a last resort or when someone is in imminent danger. Practitioners have an ethical and legal obligation to maintain patient confidentiality, but there are some instances where confidentiality may be compromised in the interests of protecting the patient or public safety [22]. For example, a potentially dangerous situation can occur when the patient acts in voluntary ways that are knowingly unsafe, such as choosing to drive impaired when other safer modes of transportation are accessible [22]. The practitioner is also accountable for recognizing instances where a patient’s actions may not align with self-reported behavior, such as downplaying the effects of cannabis use because the patient does not ‘sense’ an impairment of driving ability. Driving is legally considered a privilege and can be revoked when there is a clear compromise of driving ability. Cannabis-impaired driving should be considered a public health threat, especially when it becomes normalized behavior.
Factors influencing adoption of antidote tracking system among healthcare providers in Malaysian hospital setting
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2023
Kor Zi Han, Balamurugan Tangiisuran, Yulita Hanum P. Iskandar
Moreover, this study verified the findings from previous studies and proved that security concern is an obstacle to innovation system adoption [11,14,27]. A high level of security concern due to fear of breach of healthcare data privacy negatively impacts the adoption [28]. It is because information security and privacy are a general concern in healthcare. Healthcare staff would always ensure that the new technologies would have long-term usability, is easy to use, have good privacy and security storage of sensitive health data [27]. Data security is also necessary to be considered and guaranteed when adopting tracking systems in healthcare. Thus, adequate time and money should be invested into the most secure tracking technology for storing and sharing data. This is so that hospital stakeholders, including hospital top management, IT departments, and the pharmacist, can use advanced security features to ensure security and data protection are given ultimate priority.
Anesthetic management of obstetric patients with COVID-19: A scoping review
Published in Egyptian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2022
Radwa Hamdi Bakr Mohamed, Waad Al-Ghamdi, Aldanah Al-Marri, Bayan Al-Abdullah, Nebras Al-Hajji, Alkawthar Al-Shaybe
In addition to the challenges of administering anesthesia to a patient infected with a respiratory virus, care must be taken to minimize the spread of infection to the members of the healthcare team and other patients. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is specialized clothing and equipment worn for protection and for preventing the spread of infection. Gloves, gowns, aprons, goggles, and face masks are among the items that may be used as PPE. Other than PPE, several measures can be used in the OR environment to minimize the spread of the virus. This includes having a separate operating room with a negative pressure of 2.5 Pa before surgery on COVID-19 patients whether assumed or documented, as well as using the same room and anesthesia machine for all cases of COVID-19 during the time and using single-use devices such as disposable laryngoscope blades [8].