| 1996 Cardiac Surgeon Risk | Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus by a Cardiac Surgeon...evidence that a cardiac surgeon with chronic hepatitis C may have transmitted HCV to five of his patients during open-heart surgery.
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| 1996 Cardiac Surgeon Transmisson | Hepatitis C may be transmitted during surgery-
An infected cardiac surgeon transmitted the virus to five patients during open heart surgery. |
| 1999 OSHA Preambles | OSHA Preambles - Bloodborne Pathogens (29 CFR 1910.1030)Revision Date: Jul 30 1999 Most healthcare workers who have transmitted to patients have several factors in common): (1) The dentists and surgeons were chronic... had high titers...were unaware that they were infected.
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| 2000 Gynecology Surgical | Hepatitis alert as doctors infect surgery patients-ABOUT 4,500 patients who have undergone surgery in hospitals ... told yesterday that they may have been infected with hepatitis C. Two doctors carrying the liver disease unknowingly infected six of their adult patients during operations
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| 2001 Policy Change Surgery | Women contract hepatitis C in surgery- National infection control guidelines are to be toughened after two women contracted hepatitis C during routine surgery in Victorian hospitals
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| 2003 NIH Guidelines | Nosocomial transmission of bloodborne viruses from infected health care workers to patients...some occupations ... higher risk ... rate of HCV in oral surgeons
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| 2003 Risk of EMG Needles | “Platinum single fiber electrodes ... including the use of disposable NCS electrodes, .. with patients.. with agents ...Hepatitis C virus, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and human immunodeficiency virus”.
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| 2003 Warning Ignored by Surgeon | Surgeon Declines Safety Advice-
LI doctor with hepatitis C still opening, closing chests
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| 2004 Ethnic and cultural determinants & multi risk | Ethnic and cultural determinants & risk- Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology- Ethnic and cultural determinants influence risk assessment for hepatitis C acquisition were injection therapy, dental therapy and surgery (89%, 70% and 38%, respectively). |
| 2005 USA Surgica Tissue Adhesive | Hepatitis C scare halts use of surgical adhesive-The Health, Labor and Welfare indistry on Tuesday ordered a pharmaceutical company to stop the sale of an imported surgical tissue adhesive after an elderly man ...contracted the hepatitis C virus ... weakened following an operation...died
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| 2005 VA Surgical Clinics Investigation | EL PASO, Tx - A Beaumont Army Hospital staff member contracts Hepatitis "c" and now several patients are also infected. Up to 5% of all the patients tested so far have tested positive...
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| 2007 Cardiac Transmission | Hepatitis C Transmission from Surgeon to Patient Prompts Lookbak |
| 2007 Surgical Unit Cheif Dies | OBITUARIES: Steven G. Economou:Surgeon, writer, doodler...chairing the surgery department ...Rush University Medical Center ... chairman of Rush's general surgery department...from hepatitis C, which ...contracted in the operating room, and underwent a liver transplant...
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| 2008 HCV Dental Implants Transmission | Hepatitis patient sues, blames dental implants-A woman who underwent dental implant surgery ...suing the makers of products ... after she learned the products had been recalled and she had contracted Hepatitis C.
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| 2008 HCV via contaminated Surfaces | Nosocomial" transmission in healthcare settings is the second most common route of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission, after shared use of needles and other injection equipment.
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| 2008 Multi-Risk Transmission Factors | Frequency distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes in different geographical regions of Pakistan and their possible routes of transmission- Infectious Diseases 2008, 8:69...More than 70% of the cases were acquired in hospitals through reuse of needles/syringes and major/minor surgery...
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| HCV Detected in Dental Surgeries | Our data indicate that there is extensive contamination by HCV of dental surgeries after treatment of anti-HCV patients and that if sterilisation and disinfection are inadequate there is the possible risk of transmission to susceptible individuals
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