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The Varying Nature of the Professional Educational Preparation Among Clinical Anesthesia ProvidersWho Practice Unsafe Injection Practices
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October 1, 2008
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To the Editor: In her Guest Editorial, Wanda O. Wilson, CRNA, PhD, MSN, provides a brief, but upto- date, overview of the nature of some of the unsafe injection practices that persist among healthcare practitioners, particularly those among our professional anesthesia colleagues.1 Dr Wilson correctly suggests that professional healthcare organizations and clinical providers must work together in a unified effort to develop, implement, and enforce universally accepted infection control techniques and guidelines for the use of needles, syringes, and medication vials.
I would like to point out that Scott Young, the Las Vegas, Nevada, anesthesiologist who was observed by local health inspectors ...
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