TY - JOUR
T1 - Allergy Testing of Multiple Patients Should No Longer Be Performed with a Common Syringe
AU - Lutz, Charles T.
AU - Bell, C. Elliott
AU - Wedner, H. James
AU - Krogstad, Donald J.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1984/5/17
Y1 - 1984/5/17
N2 - Occasionally, medical practices are inadvertently found to pose the risk of serious harm to the patients they are designed to help. Often, these are established practices that have simply not been reexamined in the light of new knowledge, and they may be found in both medical centers and private offices. We believe that the use of single syringes with multiple needles for the intradermal skin testing of more than one patient is such a practice, and that patients who receive such injections are at risk of acquiring hepatitis B, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),1 and other diseases that may be transmitted.
AB - Occasionally, medical practices are inadvertently found to pose the risk of serious harm to the patients they are designed to help. Often, these are established practices that have simply not been reexamined in the light of new knowledge, and they may be found in both medical centers and private offices. We believe that the use of single syringes with multiple needles for the intradermal skin testing of more than one patient is such a practice, and that patients who receive such injections are at risk of acquiring hepatitis B, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),1 and other diseases that may be transmitted.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198405173102024
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198405173102024
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 6371529
AN - SCOPUS:0021336510
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 310
SP - 1335
EP - 1337
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 20
ER -