HIV, Hepatitis B and Dentistry

After completing this course, you’ll be able to:

1. Discuss the guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control for the modes of transmission, assessment of the risk of transmission, control of the risk and specific risk control recommendations for employers and workers for HIV and HBV.
2. Discuss the modes and risk of virus transmission in the workplace.
3. Describe the epidemiology of HIV in health-care workers.
4. Discuss the principles of infection control and their application to health-care workers.
5. Define “universal precautions.”
6. Discuss universal blood and body fluid precautions to prevent occupational HIV and HBV transmission.
7. Discuss the 5-step recommendations for employer responsibilities in protect- ing workers against bloodborne diseases.
8. Describe various measures that should be taken in the management of percuta- neous exposure to blood and other infectious body fluids.
9. Describe the procedures for disinfection, decontamination and disposal to re- duce the occupational risks of HIV and HBV infection.
10. List body fluids to which universal precautions apply and body fluids to which they do not apply.
11. Describe 3 guidelines in the use of protective barriers to reduce the risk of HIV and HBV transmission.
12. Describe 5 guidelines to be used in the selection of gloves.