1.Survey on occupational exposure among medical laboratorians
Qiumei SHANG ; Miaofang LI ; Caixia XUE ; Shiqing CHANG
Chinese Journal of Infection Control 2017;16(1):87-88,93
Objective To understand the occupational exposure among medical laboratorians in a hospital,and put forward prevention and control measures.Methods Occupational exposure among medical laboratorians in the department of laboratory medicine of a hospital from January 2011 to December 2014 were analyzed statistically.Results A total of 72 cases of occupational exposure occurred among 217 laboratorians during 4 years,occupational exposure rate was 33.18%,the occupational exposure rate in interns was 46.23%,and in laboratorians with working seniority< 1 years was 49.56%.Occupational exposure mainly occurred in outpatient blood collection room(accounting for 38.89 %),the main occupational exposure types were injuries by blood collection needles,skin contaminated by blood and body fluid(76.39 %).Occupational exposure rates in medical laboratorians in this hospital during 2011-2014 were 53.66%(22/41),41.67%(20/48),26.23%(16/61),and 20.90%(14/67),respectively,which presented a declining tendency(x2 =12.286,P<0.01).After occupational exposure,only 23 cases were reported according to the requirements of infection management department,the missing report rate was 68.06% (49/72),correct handling rate was 80.56% (58/72).Conclusion Laboratorians should strengthen education and training of healthcare-associated infection management,improve safety and prevention consciousness,standardize handling process,improve consciousness of reporting,so as to reduce the occurrence of occupational exposure and post exposure infection.
2.Role of sphingosine 1-phosphate on high glucose-induced vascular endo-thelial cell dysfunction
Weihua LIU ; Shuangfeng LIN ; Jixiang SHI ; Ting PAN ; Qiumei CHEN ; Shuoting WANG ; Hui SHANG
Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology 2016;32(2):245-250
AIM:To explore the role of sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) in the dysfunction of vascular endo-thelial cells exposed to high glucose.METHODS: In human aortic endothelial cells cultured under high-glucose ( 22 mmol/L glucose) medium, nitric oxide ( NO) level, polymorphonuclear neutrophil-endothelial cell adhesion rate, protein level of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 ( ICAM-1) , migration of endothelial cells and Akt/endothelial nitric oxide syn-thase ( eNOS) pathway activation were observed after S1P, sphingosine kinase-1 inhibitor and/or Akt inhibitor treatments. RESULTS:S1P decreased NO level, increased polymorphonuclear neutrophil adhesive rate, enhanced ICAM-1 protein level, and inhibited migration of endothelial cells and activation of Akt/eNOS pathway in endothelial cells cultured under high-glucose condition.Sphingosine kinase-1 inhibitor, which reduced S1P content, significantly improved the above endo-thelial cell function indexes and restored the activation of Akt/eNOS pathway.CONCLUSION: S1P promoted high glu-cose-induced dysfunction of endothelial cells probably by inhibiting the activation of Akt/eNOS signal pathway.Targeting S1P is expected to become one of potential treatment strategies to reduce endothelial cell dysfunction.