Puncture: Exposure for Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure
A dedicated and hard-working nurse is going through a normal shift. Checking vital signs, updating medical records, administering medications, comforting patients, drawing blood samples, inserting IVs, and then OUCH! What just happened? Is that a red dot underneath the glove? This can’t be right… Read more
TB Data Statistics
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s deadliest diseases: One third of the world’s population are infected with TB. In 2011, nearly 9 million people around the world became sick with TB disease. There were around 1.4 million TB-related deaths worldwide. TB is a leading killer of people who are HIV infected. A total of […]
Viral Hepatitis Transmission
Viral Hepatitis Transmission People can be infected with the three most common types of hepatitis in these ways: • HAV: Ingestion of contaminated fecal matter, even in tiny amounts, from close person-to-person contact with an infected person, sexual contact with an infected person, or contaminated food, drink, or objects. • HBV: Contact with infectious blood, […]
CDC Scientists Produce Speedy Results Analyzing H7N9 Virus
Hepatitis Testing Day
May 19, 2013 is Hepatitis Testing Day. Health care workers are at risk of contracting hepatitis B and C in the workplace. Doctors, nurses, and other staff are predominately exposed to these devastating and incurable diseases through needle sticks and other sharps injuries or when fluids from patients splash onto their eyes, nose, or mouth. Hepatitis […]
Benefits of Testing for Current HCV Infection
Testing for HCV Infection: Accurate testing to identify current infection is important to: 1) Help clinicians and other providers correctly identify persons infected with HCV, so that preventive services, care and treatment can be offered; 2) Notify tested persons of their infection status, enabling them to make informed decisions about medical care and options for […]
Hepatitis C FAQs for the Public
What is Hepatitis C? Hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease that ranges in severity from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a serious, lifelong illness that attacks the liver. It results from infection with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), which is spread primarily through contact with the blood of an infected person. […]
May is Hepatitis Awareness Month
Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can become chronic, life-long infections which can lead to liver cancer. Millions of Americans are living with chronic viral hepatitis, and many do not know they are infected. The word “hepatitis” means inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis is most often caused by one of several viruses, which is why […]
Findings and Research, CDC
Research & Findings American Medical Compliance is always staying up to date with the latest research and findings from the CDC. Check back with us regularly for the latest postings that may affect your practice. Please visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website. http://www.cdc.gov/ Visit AMC’s page on infection and disease control.