The Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation has released a briefing on safe injection practices.
Unsafe injection practices can lead to serious cases of patient harm, such as outbreaks of viral hepatitis. Unsafe practices include inappropriate care and maintenance of finger stick devices and glucometers, syringe reuse and contamination of vials or IV bags. Because of the potential for infection, CMS has the power to cite healthcare facilities for failure to comply with the CDC's guidelines on safe injection practices.
The CDC provides ample information on how to ensure safe injection practices by healthcare personnel. This briefing lists specific recommendations for safe injection practices, including risk assessment, policy development and performance monitoring; hand hygiene; medication preparation; needle and syringe use; single dose/single use vials, multidose vials; intravascular devices and more.
To view the EMPSF's briefing on safe injection practices in full, click here.
Unsafe injection practices can lead to serious cases of patient harm, such as outbreaks of viral hepatitis. Unsafe practices include inappropriate care and maintenance of finger stick devices and glucometers, syringe reuse and contamination of vials or IV bags. Because of the potential for infection, CMS has the power to cite healthcare facilities for failure to comply with the CDC's guidelines on safe injection practices.
The CDC provides ample information on how to ensure safe injection practices by healthcare personnel. This briefing lists specific recommendations for safe injection practices, including risk assessment, policy development and performance monitoring; hand hygiene; medication preparation; needle and syringe use; single dose/single use vials, multidose vials; intravascular devices and more.
To view the EMPSF's briefing on safe injection practices in full, click here.
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