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8810118

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-11-14
pubmed:abstractText
Two surgeons (henceforth called A and B) working in neighbouring district general hospitals were found, on routine testing, to carry hepatitis B e antigen and therefore to be at high risk of transmitting infection. Neither surgeon gave a history of injury at work. The only exposure prone operations performed by surgeon A were 16 repairs of uncomplicated inguinal hernias. Two of the 16 patients were found to have acute hepatitis B. In contrast, 15 cases on whom surgeon B performed exposure prone orthopaedic procedures remained free of hepatitis B virus infection. The follow up protocol for the patients of the two surgeons differed in that all surgeon B's patients were immunised using an accelerated course of hepatitis B vaccine, which had not been offered to patients of surgeon A. The detection of two cases of hepatitis B among patients operated on by an infected surgeon illustrates the importance of evaluating the risk of exposure associated with particular procedures when deciding whether to check patients who may have been exposed to a high risk surgeon. Surgeon A had been vaccinated before arriving in the United Kingdom and this incident highlights the need to verify immunity after vaccination against hepatitis B virus.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1350-9349
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
R126-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Response to the discovery of two practising surgeons infected with hepatitis B.
pubmed:affiliation
PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre Welsh Unit, Cardiff.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article