CDNA National Guidelines – Healthcare Workers Living with Blood Borne Viruses / Perform Exposure Prone Procedures at Risk of Exposure to Blood Borne Viruses

These guidelines from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) contain the current expert consensus on the evidence for health care workers and their blood borne virus status.

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Australian National Guidelines – Healthcare Workers Living with Blood Borne Viruses / Perform Exposure Prone Procedures at Risk of Exposure to Blood Borne Viruses

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These guidelines contain the current expert consensus on the evidence for health care workers and their blood borne virus status.

The recommendations include measures to prevent transmission, and to manage and treat health care workers with:

  • hepatitis B virus
  • hepatitis C virus 
  • human immunodeficiency virus 

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