{"id":336,"date":"2021-03-11T05:28:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T05:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=336"},"modified":"2021-03-11T05:28:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T05:28:28","slug":"updated-cpg-community-acquired-needlestick-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-community-acquired-needlestick-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Community acquired needlestick injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Community_acquired_needle_stick_injury\/\">Community acquired needlestick injury<\/a> CPG has been updated and reviewed by the CPG committee. The name has had a slight change to clarify that it does not relate to workplace injuries \u2013 the previous name was \u201cNeedlestick injury\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Community acquired needlestick injuries (CA-NSI) in children are a cause of significant parental anxiety<\/li>\n<li>There are no published reports of an incidental CA-NSI in a child leading to transmission of a blood borne virus such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV<\/li>\n<li>It is important to determine whether a CA-NSI is high risk, and ascertain the immunisation status of the child<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community acquired needlestick injury was an existing Victorian CPG and will be considered for endorsement by PIC in April 2021. The revision was considered by the CPG committee on 15 June 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}