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Alternating white text on orange background and white text on brown background. The poster is split into two sections; the upper half lists precautions for hospital personnel treating possible AIDS patients and the lower half lists recommendations for laboratory personnel performing tests on materials from possible AIDS patients.

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Title Precautions for hospital personnel treating possible AIDS patients

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance)

Publisher Chicago (original), Hepatitis Information Center (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1982

Subject AIDS (Disease) (subject), AIDS (Disease)--Prevention (subject), AIDS patients (subject), Hepatitis Information Center (Chicago, Ill.) (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Chicago (city or populated place), Illinois (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 print : lithograph, color (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 39 x 28 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-44795

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Content Precautions for hospital personnel
treating possible AIDS patients

Extraordinary care must be taken to avoid Blood spills should be cleaned up promptly with
accidental wounds from sharp instruments a disinfectant solution, such as sodium
contaminated with potentially infectious material hypochlorite (household bleach).

ee LUE Articles soiled with blood should be placed in an
Avoid contact of open skin lesions with material impervious bag, prominently labeled ‘‘AIDS
from AIDS patients. Precautions” or ‘‘Blood Precautions,’’ before

being sent for reprocessing or disposal. Reusable
items should be reprocessed in accordance with
the hospital’s policies for hepatitis B virus-
contaminated items.

Gloves should be worn when handling blood
specimens, blood-soiled items, body fluids,
excretions, and secretions, as well as all surfaces,
materials, and objects exposed to them.
Instruments with lenses should be sterilized after

Gowns should be worn when clothing may be use on AIDS patients.

soiled with body fluids, blood, secretions, or
excretions. Needles should not be bent after use, but should
be promptly placed in a puncture-resistant
container used solely for such disposal. Needles
should not be reinserted into their original

Hands should be washed thoroughly and
immediately if they become contaminated with

scat sheaths before being discarded into the

Hands should be washed after removing gowns container, since this is a common cause of

and gloves and before leaving the rooms of needle injury. Disposable needles and syringes
known or suspected AIDS patients. are preferred.

Blood and other specimens should be labeled A private room is indicated for patients who are
prominently with a special warning, such as too ill to use good hygiene, such as those with
‘Blood Precautions” or ‘‘AIDS Precautions.’ profuse diarrhea, fecal incontinence, or altered

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Recommendations for laboratory personnel
performing tests on materials from possible AIDS patients

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Mechanical pipetting, not mouth pipetting, Biological safety cabinets and other primary
should be used for the manipulation of all liquids containment devices are advised whenever pro-
in the laboratory. cedures are conducted that have a high potential

Needles and syringes should be promptly placed for creating aerosols or infectious droplets.

in puncture-resistant containers for their disposal. Laboratory work surfaces should be decon-
taminated with a disinfectant, such as sodium
hypochlorite solution following any spill of poten-
tially infectious material and at the completion of
work activities.

Laboratory coats, gowns, or uniforms should be
worn while working with potentially infectious
materials and should be discarded appropriately

before leaving the laboratory.
All potentially contaminated materials used in

laboratory tests should be decontaminated,
preferably by autoclaving, before disposal or
reprocessing.

Gloves should be worn to avoid skin contact with

blood, specimens containing blood, blood-soiled

items, body fluids, excretions, and secretions, as

well as surfaces, materials, and objects exposed

to them. All personnel should wash their hands following
completion of laboratory activities, removal of
protective clothing, and before leaving the
laboratory.

*Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Provided as a service from the

Hepatitis Information Center,
Abbott Laboratories, Diagnostics Division, Please Post
D-49B, Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois 60064.

Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports 31:577-579, 1982. 97-8207

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