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Médecine du travail du personnel hospitalier

Blunt suture needles halve the risk of needlestick injuries

Auteur     Annika Parantainen
Auteur     Jos H Verbeek
Auteur     Marie-Claude Lavoie
Auteur     Manisha Pahwa
Éditeur     Annika Parantainen
Résumé     Surgeons and their assistants are especially at risk of needle stick injuries during operations. This can lead to infection with HIV or other blood-borne viruses. The use of blunt needles is proposed to prevent needle stick injuries. We reviewed the literature to evaluate the preventive effect of blunt needles compared to sharp needles on needle stick injuries among surgical staff. We searched multiple medical databases (to May 2011). We included studies if they were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of blunt versus sharp suture needles for preventing needle stick injuries among surgical staff. We located 10 RCTs with 2961 operations in which blunt needles were compared to sharp needles. Six studies focused on abdominal operations, two on vaginal repair and two on hip replacement. On average, a surgeon that used sharp needles sustained one glove perforation per three operations. The use of blunt needles reduced the risk of glove perforations by 54% (95% confidence interval 46% to 62%) compared to sharp needles. The use of blunt needles in six operations will thus prevent one glove perforation. In four studies the use of blunt needles also reduced the number of self-reported needle stick injuries by 69% (95% confidence interval 14% to 68%). Even though surgeons reported that the force needed for the blunt needles was higher, their use of the needles was still rated as acceptable in five out of six studies. We concluded that there is high quality evidence that the use of blunt needles appreciably reduces the risk of contracting infectious diseases for surgeons and their assistants over a range of operations by reducing the number of needle stick injuries. It is unlikely that future research will change this conclusion.
Titre du livre     Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Lieu     Chichester, UK
Éditeur     John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Date     2011-11-09

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doi:10.1002/14651858.CD009170.pub2

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