Author: SHEA Writing Group
Date Published:1/5/2011 4:25:00 PM
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Abstract:


Abstract: This guideline provides the updated recommendations of SHEA regarding the management of healthcare providers who are infected with HBV, HCV, and/or HIV. SHEA continues to recommend that, although some aspects of the approach to and administrative management of each of these infectious syndromes in healthcare providers are similar, separate management strategies for healthcare workers who are infected with these unrelated viruses remain appropriate. SHEA emphasizes the use of appropriate infection control procedures to minimize exposure of patients or providers to blood, emphasizes that transfers of blood from patients to providers and from providers to patients should be avoided, and recommends that infected healthcare providers should not be totally prohibited from participating in patient‐care activities solely on the basis of a bloodborne pathogen infection.

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