Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety

Hardcover: 1,240 pages
ISBN 142004785X
978-142004785
CRC / Taylor & Francis
August 2009
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare is one of the industries with the highest injury rates.

This long overdue update of William Charney's seminal work covers exposure paradigms and offers solutions and models of protection.

This new edition includes new information on technology to protect healthcare workers, discussions of threats in the form of emerging infectious diseases, and coverage of new legislation and regulations. These topics are covered fully:

Overview of Health and Safety in the Health Care Environment. Epidemology.
Back Injury Prevention in Health Care.
Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Infection Control.
Progress in Preventing Sharps Injures in the U.S. Violence in the Health Care Industry.
Slip, Trips, and Falls.
Ergonomics.
Chemical/Drugs.
Tuberculosis Engineering Controls.
Electrocautery Smoke: Reasons for Scavenging.
Safe Use of Ethylene Oxide in the Hospital Environment.
Monitoring Aldehydes.
Pentamidine.
Ribavirin.
Trace Anesthetic Gas.
Cost Benefit.
A Clinical Approach to Glove Dermatitis and Latex Allergy.
Latex Glove Use: Essentials in Modern Hospital Safety.
Health and Safety Hazards of Shiftwork: Implications for Health Care Workers and Strategies for Prevention.
Radiation Protection in Hospitals. Reproductive Hazards in Hospitals.
Medical Waste.
The Occupational Hazards of Home Health Care.
Caring Until It Hurts: How Nursing Work Is Becoming the Most Dangerous Job in America.
Laboratory Safety.
Biological Exposure Index Testing: Two Case Studies.
Functions and Staffing of a Hospital Safety Office.
Education for Action.
Stress Factors.
Case Studies of Health Care Workers in the Compensation System.
Sample Protocol: Hospital Safety Office Program.
The Top Offenses.

This edition also offers R&D for needle technology, new data on interventions, recent research on occupational health and safety for healthcare workers, and insight into the philosophy of creating a Safety Culture.

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