Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Supplement, August 21, 1987 / Vol. 36 / No. 2S

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• Alternative Title:
  Recommendations for Prevention of HIV Transmission in Health-Care Settings
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is transmitted through sexual contact and exposure to infected blood or blood components and perinatally from mother to neonate. HIV has been isolated from blood, semen, vaginal secretions, saliva, tears, breast milk, cerebrospinal fluid, amniotic fluid, and urine and is likely to be isolated from other body fluids, secretions, and excretions. However, epidemiologic evidence has implicated only blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and possibly breast milk in transmission.
  
  The increasing prevalence of HIV increases the risk that health-care workers will be exposed to blood from patients infected with HIV, especially when blood and body-fluid precautions are not followed for all patients. Thus, this document emphasizes the need for health-care workers to consider ALL patients as potentially infected with HIV and/or other blood-borne pathogens and to adhere rigorously to infection-control precautions for minimizing the risk of exposure to blood and body fluids of all patients.
  
  The recommendations contained in this document consolidate and update CDC recommendations published earlier for preventing HIV transmission in health-care settings: precautions for clinical and laboratory staffs (1) and precautions for health-care workers and allied professionals (2); recommendations for preventing HIV transmission in the workplace (3) and during invasive procedures (4); recommendations for preventing possible transmission of HIV from tears (5); and recommendations for providing dialysis treatment for HIV-infected patients (6). These recommendations also update portions of the "Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals" (7) and reemphasize some of the recommendations contained in "Infection Control Practices for Dentistry" (8). The recommendations contained in this document have been developed for use in health-care settings and emphasize the need to treat blood and other body fluids from ALL patients as potentially infective.
  
  These same prudent precautions also should be taken in other settings in which persons may be exposed to blood or other body fluids.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Antibodies, Viral Decontamination Health Manpower Health Personnel HIV HIV Antibodies Housekeeping Humans Laboratories Laundering Medical Waste Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Renal Dialysis Risk Safety Sterilization Viral Diseases

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• Keywords:
  Physicians; Health-care-personnel; Nurses; Laboratory-workers; Disease-transmission; Viral-diseases; Acquired-immune-deficiency-syndrome; Protective-measures
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Supplement, 1987; v.36, no. 2
• Series:
  Supplements: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  2380-8950 (print)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Pubmed ID:
  3112554
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 4 ; United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  15 pdf pages
• Volume:
  36
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00177502
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB88-192810
• Citation:
  MMWR Suppl 1987 Aug; 36(Suppl 2):1-18
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1987
• Collection(s):
  Guidelines and Recommendations National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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