Medical Waste Containers Articles
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A Difficult Needle to Thread
Do you know what it’s like to wake up in a different stranger’s house every morning? To open your eyes and immediately feel extremely uncomfortable, alarmed, unsafe, out of place, lost, dizzy, like your world is the most upside-down it’s ever been? Do you remember what it was like to be a kid tagging along to the grocery store with your parents? One second ...
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Needlestick Injury - the pointy end of a preventable pandemic
The Challenge Every 60 minutes, of every day, six people suffer a needlestick injury somewhere in the world. Every day, 3 people die as a result of those injuries[1]. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports in the World Health Report 2002, that of the 35 million health-care workers world wide, two million experience percutaneous exposure to infectious diseases each year[2]. WHO estimates ...
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UV Light a Top Ten ECRI Safety Issue for 2021
A recent Medtech Dive article highlighted the medtech safety issues facing hospitals in the year ahead. Concerns included managing devices approved via the EUA process, substandard PPE, and the lack of regulation/safety concerns around UV light products. According to MEdtech, “Ultraviolet light technologies can have a germicidal effect but may not deliver a high enough dose to ...
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