Essentials of Modern Hospital Safety, Volume 2, presents vital information on the identification, evaluation, and control of hospital health hazards. This volume uses data from the latest studies to cover such topics as tuberculosis control methods, reducing back injuries in nursing, protection from aerosolized blood, needlestick prevention, bloodborne pathogens, control of aerosolized drugs, pentamidine, ribavirin, shiftwork problems and solutions, and aldehyde control methods and sampling techniques. It is a book filled with real data and real solutions, giving you the facts you need to ensure safety for your hospital workers.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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36 s/w Tabellen, 56 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
56 figs., 36 tabs.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-87371-584-3 (9780873715843)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Tuberculosis: Nosocomial Tuberculosis Transmission: Biological, Behavioral, and Environmental Factors (E.A. Nardell). Engineering Control Options for Tuberculosis in Health Care Settings (W. Charney). The Inefficiency of Surgical Masks for Protection Against Droplet Nuclei TB. Occupational Needlestick Injuries: Needlestick-Prevention Devices (ECRI). Needlestick Prevention Devices: A Pointed Discussion (L. Wugofski). Work Environment and Needle Handling Injuries (D. Makofsky and J.E. Cone). The Needlestick Injury Epidemic: Organizing for Prevention (J. Mehring). Personal Exposure to Blood Aerosols Among Operating Room Personnel (P.A. Heinsohn and D.L. Jewett). Health and Safety Hazards of Shiftwork: Implications for Health Care Workers and Strategies for Prevention (J. Schirmer). Monitoring Aldehydes in the Hospital (E. W. Finucane). Pentamidine: Inhalation Hazard Control for Health Care Workers During the Administration of Aerosolized Pentamidine (L. Rose). Aerosolized Pentamidine Exposures in Health Care Workers (P. Quinlan). Verification of the Capture Efficiency of HEPA Filtration for Aerosolized Pentamidine (W. Charney). Engineering Controls (W. Charney). Ribavirin Aerosol: Engineering and Administrative Controls to Contain Aerosolized Ribavirin: Results to Simulation and Application to One Patient (W. Charney, K.J. Corkery, R. Kraemer, and L. Wugofski). Validation of Control System for Ribavirin Aerosol (W. Charney). A Design Method to reduce Lost Time Back Injury in Nursing (W. Charney, K. Zimmerman, and E. Walara). Respiratory Protection in Hospitals (C. Ishida).
