Safe use of syringes and needles
Hazards: Pricking oneself or one’s colleagues .
Prevention:
- This may be avoided by very careful handling.
- Decontamination cleaning , sterilization of reusable needles , syringes, and lancets.
- Proper disposer of needles and syringes by incineration. Prior to incineration they should be discarded into jams or metal cans not into cardboard boxes.
Other hazards:
Other
hazards arise from aerosol created
if a needle flies off the end of a syringe,
When
pressure is applied to the plunger and the needle is blacked or when a needle
is withdrawn through the rubber cap of a
vaccine type bottle.
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The situation can be
avoided by withdrawing the needle through a swab of cotton wool held over the
vaccine bottle cap. This prevents needle vibration and takes care of leakage.
Sending specimens to a control or referral system: A
specimen referral system will function reliably providing.
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There is close communication between staff of
the community based health facilities and the district hospital laboratory.
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Out reach laboratories
are supplied with specimen all containers, laboratory request forms.
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Community health
workers and district laboratory personnel are trained in the correct collection
, Preservation and dispatch of specimens.
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Correctly completed
documentation accompanies all specimens and careful records are kept of
referred specimens and test reports.
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There is reliable and
secure means of transporting specimens through out the year and retiring test
results with the minimum of delay.
Types of medical record:
Medical
records include:
- Laboratory test reports.
- Record of daily quality control information in the laboratory.
- Patients records-
ð Particulars of the patients –name , age, sex , address,
occupation etc.
ð Date and time of attending in the hospital.
ð Diagnosis ,treatment and advice.
- Medico –legal records,e.g., injury report, death certificate etc.
- Disease rerods:
ð Clinical features of disease.
ð Confirmatory disease.
ð Provisional diseases..
- Drug recors:
ð Stock list of drug.
ð Receiving date of drug.
ð Distribution date of drug.
ð Daily short list of drug.