HIV-infection as a risk factor of professional contamination of the military medical hospital personnel
Lobzin, I.V.; Belevitin, A.B.; Bulan'kov, I.I.; Akimkin, V.G.
Voenno-Meditsinskii Zhurnal 330(4): 41-7 96
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-9050 PMID: 19537105 Document Number: 633589
In Military-medical academy named by Kirov S.M., 857 HIV-infectioned patients were treated. The most part of them required in reanimation and surgical treatment, at 25.6% of patients the HIV-infection was registered in stage AIDS. More than half of cases of diseases are registered for the first time. 51.1% of patients knew about their HIV-positive status, but only 16% of patients have informed doctors. Interrogation of experts shows their low epidemiological vigilance. By calculations, registration of medical traumas occurs on the average in 7.4% of cases. There is a risk professional infection. There were defined the directions of decrease of risk of professional traumatism and infection with haemocontact infections. The algorithm of emergency chemoprophylaxis of the HIV-infection in military-medical establishment is offered.