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Bellevue, Washington -- Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, is hosting a complimentary webinar with Kathleen Arias, MS, MT(ASCP), CIC in "Outbreaks Associated with Unsafe Injection and Medication Practices -- and How We Can Prevent Them."

Since 2007, multiple outbreaks associated with improper injection and medication handling practices have occurred in the United States. These breaches have resulted in the transmission of a variety of bacterial and viral pathogens and in patients developing viral hepatitis, meningitis, bloodstream infections, skin abscesses, and skin, soft tissue and joint infections. They have also resulted in the notification of tens of thousands of patients that they were possibly exposed to bloodborne pathogens, and the screening of thousands of patients for infection with hepatitis B and C viruses and HIV.

Although these events are preventable, why do they continue to occur? Arias will answer this question by identifying the unsafe injection and medication handling practices associated with disease transmission in these outbreaks; discuss recommendations for safe injection and medication handling practices developed by a variety of organizations; and identify resources that can be used to promote adherence to proper infection prevention protocols in our healthcare organizations. 

Outbreaks Associated with Unsafe Injection and Medication Practices -- and How We Can Prevent Them
DATE: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
TIME: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
WHERE: http://www.pharmacyonesource.com/webinars

About the Presenter: Kathleen Arias, MS, MT(ASCP), CIC has worked in the infection prevention and control field since 1980 and is currently the Director of Arias Infection Control Consulting, LLC. She has infection prevention and control experience in a variety of healthcare settings. Kathy is the author of the textbook Outbreak Investigation, Prevention and Control in Health Care Settings: Critical Issues in Patient Safety, 2nd edition (Jones and Bartlett Publishers) and is one of the authors of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) position paper: Safe injection, infusion, and medication vial practices in health care. In 2011 she received APIC’s Carole DeMille Award for her contributions to the field of infection control.

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