| ID (ISN) del documento | 50941 |
| Número CIS |
89-188 |
| ISSN - Título de la serie |
0091-0031 - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |
| Año |
1987 |
| Número de serie |
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| Autor(es) |
US Department of Health and Human Services, Centres for Disease Control |
| Título |
Recommendations for prevention of HIV transmission in health-care settings |
| Información bibliográfica |
21 Aug. 1987, Vol.36, No.25, 18p. 37 ref. |
| Resumen |
Practical recommendations for health care workers who have contact with persons potentially infected with HIV. Contents: definitions of health care workers; risk of acquiring HIV in health care settings; health care workers with AIDS; precautions to prevent transmission of HIV in dentistry, precautions for morticians and for persons performing autopsies, dialysis and laboratory work with biological samples; environmental considerations for HIV transmission, sterilisation and disinfection, survival of HIV in the environment, housekeeping, cleaning and decontaminating spills of blood and other body fluids, laundry, infective waste; implementation of recommended precautions; serological testing for HIV infection, testing of patients, testing of health care workers; management of infected health care workers. The recommendations are intended for health care settings and they emphasise the need to treat blood and other body fluids from all patients as potentially infective. |
| Descriptores (primarios) |
Estados Unidos; personal de los servicios de salud; hospitales; síndrome de inmunodeficiencia |
| Descriptores (secundarios) |
enfermedades víricas; directiva; prevención del contagio |
| Tipo de documento |
F - Notas informativas, directrices prácticas, normas |
| Tema(s) |
Protección individual
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Industrias y ocupaciones
|
| Navegación por categoria(s) |
Health care services
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Viral diseases (other than aids)
HIV/AIDS
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