Needle Stick Injuries During Medical Training Among Thai Pre-Clinical Year Medical Students of the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
VIROJ WIWANITKIT, M.D.*
Affiliation : * Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
Objective : To study episodes of needle stick mJunes during medical trammg among pre-clinical year medical students of the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University.
Setting : Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University.
Design : Retrospective descriptive study.
Subjects : 375 pre-clinical year medical students of the Faculty of Medicine, Chula longkorn University during academic year 1998- 1999.
Method : Questionnaire survey and interviewing.
Results : In this study only 5 students revealed that they had ever had accidental exposure during venipuncture training. Each episode of exposure was different in the details. Most of the accidents occurred after venipuncture practice (80% ).
Conclusion : Although the universal precautions are taught in many subjects, we also found that accidental exposures still occur. Not only prevention of accidents but also post exposure management should be frequently reiterated to the medical students at every level. Any medical practice of students should be under supervisor control.
Keywords : Accidental Exposure, Pre-Clinical Year Medical Students, Post-Exposure, Management
