Incidence of the Needle-Stick Injuries in Medical Students Among Clinical Training.
- Author:
Wan Seoup PARK
1
;
Yun Kyung NO
;
Jong Young LEE
;
Doohie KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
needle-stick injury
- MeSH:
Surveys and Questionnaires;
Emergencies;
Hemorrhage;
Humans;
Incidence*;
Needlestick Injuries*;
Operating Rooms;
Phlebotomy;
Surveys and Questionnaires;
Schools, Medical;
Students, Medical*
- From:Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine
1994;27(3):403-410
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A questionnaire survey was conducted to assess the experience of the needle stick injuries in 144 seniors of a medical school during the previous 10 months. one hundred and five of them (73%) had responded. About sixty-nine percent(72 cases) of the respondents had suffered at least one injury and there had been 129 injuries in total. Seventy-eight(56.6%) of the injuries took place at the time of the venipuncture. The emergency and operating room incurred 76.7 % and 23.3% of the injury, respectively. Injuries with bleeding account for 50.4%. None of the respondents was systematically educated about the prevention of injury. This survey shows that the needle-stick injury is a great risk for the medical students' health, and that educational effort for its prevention is warranted.
