Reducing potential for needle-stick injuries in the operating room: Efficacy of wound closure with Operative Armour as compared with traditional methods

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics

ElianaSaltzman¹ 

关键词: Needle-stick injuries;    operating room;    occupational hazards;    health personnel;    infection control;    safety;    wound closure;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2473011418S00415

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Category:OtherIntroduction/Purpose:The CDC estimates that at least 385,000 sharps injuries occur annually among US healthcare workers, which may even be as high as 800,000. Traditionally, wound closure demands the OR scrub tech to pre-load suture needles onto needle drivers that are presented to the surgeon and then passed back once the needle has been used. With frequent passing of contaminated needles, needle-stick injuries occur commonly in the OR. Operative Armour (Sharp Fluidics®, LLC) incorporates a novel needle trap that enables surgeons to independently self-secure and self-dispense suture needles during closure (Fig. 1). We hypothesized that the use of Operative Armour as compared to the standard technique of sequentially passed needles would reduce the number of sutures passes.Methods:Three cadaveric specimens were dissected in this study. A 12 cm long incision was made through an anterior and posterior approach to the ankle joint in each specimen. The incisions were cross-hatched at 1 cm interv...

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