The cause and prevention on occupational exposure of medical personnel in contagious hospital

Objective To investigate the cause and prevention measures to occupational exposure of doctors and nurses in contagious hospital. Methods A statistics of report card of occupational exposure on medical was made from January 2009 to October 2013 in our hospital. The reasons of occupational exposure to blood-borne diseases have been analyzed from the data. So the preventive actions were suggested. Results Total of 13 exposure cases to blood-borne diseases had been found in doctors and nurses. There were 11(84.6%) cases of them were needle injury, one(7.7%) case was skin exposure and one(7.7%) case was mucosal exposure. Most cases(84.6%) of the personnel were nurses, others were technicians(15.4%). Among all the cases, 9 of them were exposure to HIV, 2 cases were to hepatitis C and one was to hepatitis B. In all these cases, 9 cases had been given access to medicine. There were 6 cases had used the drugs for HIV prevention. The whole process follow up to the 13 cases showed that no one has been injured from occupational exposure. Conclusions There were certain risks to occupational exposure in doctors and nurses, especially the exposure to blood-borne diseases in contagious hospital. Preventive actions, including the better training on medical personnel to occupational exposure, making the specification operation, correcting the defect on operation skills, replacing effectively protective equipment in time, are all important measures to reduce the risk of occupational exposure.