Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis

An effective occupational health program is a key aspect of preventing exposure to infectious agents and subsequent infection, as well as evaluation and management of postexposure prophylaxis and infections in health care personnel (HCP) by educating HCP regarding proper handling of sharps, early id...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Shenoy, Erica S., Weber, David J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
Materias:
Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8331250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34362540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2021.04.008
_version_ 1783732879190130688
author Shenoy, Erica S.
Weber, David J.
author_facet Shenoy, Erica S.
Weber, David J.
author_sort Shenoy, Erica S.
collection PubMed
description An effective occupational health program is a key aspect of preventing exposure to infectious agents and subsequent infection, as well as evaluation and management of postexposure prophylaxis and infections in health care personnel (HCP) by educating HCP regarding proper handling of sharps, early identification and isolation of potentially infectious patients, implementation of standard and transmission-based precautions, and offering counseling of HCP regarding nonroutine prophylaxis. Occupational health services (OHS) must also apply standardized processes for determining when exposures have occurred and providing appropriate management, and provide immediate availability of a medical evaluation following a nonprotected exposure to an infectious disease.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8331250
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Elsevier Inc.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-83312502021-08-04 Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis Shenoy, Erica S. Weber, David J. Infect Dis Clin North Am Article An effective occupational health program is a key aspect of preventing exposure to infectious agents and subsequent infection, as well as evaluation and management of postexposure prophylaxis and infections in health care personnel (HCP) by educating HCP regarding proper handling of sharps, early identification and isolation of potentially infectious patients, implementation of standard and transmission-based precautions, and offering counseling of HCP regarding nonroutine prophylaxis. Occupational health services (OHS) must also apply standardized processes for determining when exposures have occurred and providing appropriate management, and provide immediate availability of a medical evaluation following a nonprotected exposure to an infectious disease. Elsevier Inc. 2021-09 2021-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8331250/ /pubmed/34362540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2021.04.008 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Article
Shenoy, Erica S.
Weber, David J.
Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis
title Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis
title_full Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis
title_fullStr Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis
title_full_unstemmed Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis
title_short Occupational Health Update: Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Preexposure Prophylaxis
title_sort occupational health update: approach to evaluation of health care personnel and preexposure prophylaxis
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8331250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34362540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2021.04.008
work_keys_str_mv AT shenoyericas occupationalhealthupdateapproachtoevaluationofhealthcarepersonnelandpreexposureprophylaxis
AT weberdavidj occupationalhealthupdateapproachtoevaluationofhealthcarepersonnelandpreexposureprophylaxis

Ejemplares similares