RISCHIO
BIOLOGICO
E PUNTURE ACCIDENTALI
NEGLI OPERATORI SANITARI
a cura del gruppo di studio “Phase”
Lauri Edizioni
The Phase (People for
Healthcare Administration, Safety and Efficiency) Study Group formed in April
1999 as an interdisciplinary cultural group devoted to the study of safety
issues arising within the healthcare sector. Professionals from the healthcare,
university, institutional, legal and industrial world have contributed to
drawing up these pages with the purpose of providing a complete and comprehensive
outline of the various issues related to the safety conditions involved in
working and living in a complex environment, such as that of hospitals. The
investigation method has actually sprung from a debate involving personal
spheres of competence and experiences and thereafter developed into an analysis
and interpretation of the regulations in force. During this research work,
he group has put together data and information made available by national
and international surveillance institutions, as well as the information already
made available by National Healthcare Agencies. Particular importance has
also been attached to the actual case record and to the worldwide scientific
literature available on the subject.
This detailed analysis has led to the following considerations:
- Occupational exposure of healthcare staff to biological risks represents
a priority problem for all healthcare organisations.
- The nature and seriousness of the exposure arises from accidental pricks
deriving from the use of syringes, needles and vascular catheters.
- The exposure to pathogens which are transmitted by haematic contact (such
as HBV, HCV, HIV) unfortunately is still rather frequent both in hospitals
and in domiciliary assistance (both in Italy and abroad).
- Nurses represent the category displaying the highest risk of exposure (as
they account for approximately 57% of the overall cases of cutaneous exposure),
followed by that of auxiliary staff, trainees and medical staff.
- The cost involved by the management of accidental events, according to a
conservative estimate, amounts to approximately 34 billion lira only as far
as diagnostics and post-exposure prophylaxis are concerned.
- 80% of accidental pricks can be avoided through the employment of safety
tools and by properly informing all those who are actually exposed to this
risk. The conclusions of this research work are quite interesting, in that
they highlight the dangers which healthcare workers are exposed to during
their everyday work.
DIZIONARIO
BIOGRAFICO
DEGLI SCIENZIATI E DEI TECNICI
di Giorgio Dragoni, Silvio Bergia e Giovanni Gottardi
1999, formato 170x240 1.600 pagine, 98 000 lire
Zanichelli Editore
Even scientists are men, having fallen into the banal history of their time, immersed in everyday problems, beset by feelings, fears, joys and discomforts that alternate with the victories and defeats of their research. Their existence is inextricably entwined with their formulas, theorems, studies and research, which have often given rise to institutions, schools, academies and prestige for their country. This is the idea behind this book, which brings together the biographies of some 6,000 different individuals. ůSome are scientists who have devoted themselves to mathematics, the natural sciences, anthropology, medicine, architecture, philosophy and geographical exploration, some are technicians (engineers, computer experts, industrialists, inventors), all covered with ample bibliographical references and referrals that make it an interesting read.
RAPIDA
SCENDE LA NOTTE.
CAPIRE IL SUICIDIO.
Jamison Kay R.
PrezzoL. 35.000 - 426 p.
Editore Longanesi Collana Il Cammeo
At the age of 28, Kay R. Jamison, after a long period of depression, attempted to take her own life. The long and difficult road back was for her the start of a new life, devoted to the study of manic-depressive disease and suicide. For this, the author of this courageous autobiography, a psychiatrist considered one of the leading authorities in research on manic-depression, has found the strength and the courage to make her 30-year story public, from her personal testimony to her professional experience with suicides affected by the same manic-depression. The author brings to these pages all her knowledge, research and clinical experience in this problem. It is important to decode the signals that the aspiring suicide gives off, and to study the profound motives that lead them to prefer death to life, and that is why Jamison studies the psychological bases of suicide.
LE
VIRTU' DELL'OZIO
Armando Torno
144 pp. - 26.000 lire
in libreria dal 19 giugno
Mondadori Saggi
Armando Torno has a passion
for time as a topic to be probed extensively to be able to understand the
profound meaning of our lives. Time is the dimension that man expands, constricts,
fills and empties as he sees fit, today more than ever now that the new technologies
give the illusion that we have ever more time at our disposal to fill as we
please.
But what an illusion! Today, time is the real tyrant: everything is accelerating,
becoming a frenetic search for reaching solutions that seem obsolete the moment
they’re born. A frenetic pace, for work, for family commitments, for fitness,
even for rest. He who stops is lost! Or not? No! Neurotic management of time
denies man that which no machine can restore: the desire to create, with his
hands, his mind, his dreams, personally, imperfectly, and wonderfully human.
Only idleness, tossed out, abused, despised by cultivators of free time, taken
up by extreme sports, transoceanic voyages, and fine company, only idleness
can revive the oldest and most noble part of our souls. The author suddenly
frees from their sense of guilt those who love to let themselves go in a calm,
placid lounging about, furnishing them with authoritative masters from the
past as support if they are criticized, because there is a long history and
even a philosophy of the dolce far niente that goes from the Classic Greeks
and Latins to today.
