Profilaxis En La Acupuntura : El Problema Del Hand Presuer

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Hand pressure (Oshide) is practice normally in a Japanese style acupuncture and touch the shaft of the needle with a finger when it's inserting, and them it lose the quality of sterile. We were evaluated the risk of hand pressure for patients and for acupuncturist. The presence of bacterial colonial in the index finger and thumb on the acupuncturist were examined. There were contaminated at the finger and the needles after treatment with acupuncture. We try to determine the possibility of presence the virus of hepatitis B at the needles after treatment with acupuncture at patient carrier of that virus. After treatment this needles were extracted and it was proceed with PCR system and it determinate the presence of DNA of the hepatitis B virus. The presence of this virus in the needles represent a high factor of risk of infection for acupuncturist. Disposable sterile acupuncture needles and guide tubes are strongly recommended in all instances. AIl disposable needles should be discarded immediately after use.
関西鍼灸大学の論文
2002-09-20