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Abstract
Occupational accidents and knowledge about universal precautions in medical interns of developing country Nepal
Pandit N.1, Joshi S.D.1, Bk S.K.1
Introduction: Medical-students are vulnerable to occupational-accidents with body fluids, droplets, needles and other cutting devices because of their inexperience and lack of training despite their desire to do a lot. The purpose of the present study was to study the frequency and type of occupational-accidents suffered by medical-interns and their knowledge about the universal precautions.
Methods: Cross-sectional study of all the medical-interns working around the country healthcare centers during 2002 March and 2004 April. A randomized sample of 631 was selected (power 95%, error 5%) to this population as guided survey was applied. The survey consisted in 20 structured questions, most closed and three open, enquiring about number of occupational-accidents types, what done at the moment and the knowledge of universal-precautions.
Results: Of all the participants, 99% had been working at least 1-year rotation as medical-interns including medical, surgery, gyaen & obst., pediatrics, emergency unit. The sample included the community-health camp by interns also. Only 83% of interns surveyed had received anti-HBV vaccination.54% of them admitted, They had suffered at least one occupational accident with patient’s exposure: 12% of these admitted had suffered occupational-accidents with needles, 48% did nothing after accidents because they didn’t know what should be done. Of total sample, 93% of the interns knew little or nothing about the universal-precautions.
Discussion: A very high proportional of medical interns in Nepal suffers risky occupational accidents including tuberculosis, eye infections and other in their medical practices. Most of there, young doctors do nothing to prevent themselves from occupational transmitted diseases, mainly due to lack of knowledge. Their knowledge regarding universal-precaution is poor and their comments is that there should be training of safety management to all the medical professionals to prevent the chance of further infectious diseases(HIV, HepB, HepC etc.) which is very urgent for poor developing country like Nepal.
The 3rd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment
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MoPe11.10C02
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"PanditN., et al.
Occupational accidents and knowledge about universal precautions in medical interns of developing country Nepal.
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MoPe11.10C02"
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