Objective<\/strong>: Healthcare workers are at risk of occupational injury in terms of infections due to hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmitted by blood and body fluids as a result of sharp injuries. In this study, it was aimed to analyze the sharp injuries registered in a second-stage hospital of a county and to determine the ratio of personal protective equipment usage.<\/p>\n Methods<\/strong>: Between 2012 and 2016, records of sharp injuries reported at Seydi\u015fehir State Hospital in Konya were analyzed retrospectively. The data were expressed in numbers and percentages.<\/p>\n Results<\/strong>: In a five-year period, sharp injuries were recorded in a total of 98 healthcare workers, with a mean age of 23.5 years. While the top three injured profession groups included nursing students (67.3%), nurses (17.3%) and cleaning personnel (8.2%), the most common reason of injury was recapping a used needle (41.9%). While 55.1% of the health personnel used personal protective equipment during the incident, 50% preferred single layer gloves. Of the source patients, serological status of 17.3% was unknown, while patients having a known serological status showed 4.1% HBsAg positivity, 2% anti-HCV positivity, and no anti-HIV positivity. HBV, HCV and HIV infection did not develop during the six-month follow-up of employees at risk. It was observed that those exposed to injury were 96.9% immune against HBV serologically.<\/p>\n Conclusions<\/strong>: Although it was satisfactory that there were not any HBV, HCV or HIV infection incidences developing after a 6-month follow-up, standard precautions should be followed to avoid sharp injuries. In case of injury, all health personnel, especially doctors, should report about the incidents, and they should be followed-up and receive prophylaxis, if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abstract Objective: Healthcare workers are at risk of occupational injury in terms of infections due to hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmitted by blood and body fluids as a result of sharp injuries. In this study, it was aimed to analyze the sharp injuries registered in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[3676,4411],"class_list":["post-15042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-healthcare-workers","tag-sharp-injuries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}