ISIPS Introduces Major Medical Reference Guide at the International Meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology --APIC--.

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah -- A major medical reference guide, The Compendium of Sharps Safety Technologies, written by Dr. Joel S. Rossen and Ron Stoker, Executive Director of the International Sharps Injury Prevention Society, is being introduced at the international conference of APIC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology in Baltimore, MD, June 19-23. This guide is a combination printed and digital publication featuring hundreds of medical devices that are designed to reduce exposure to bloodborne pathogens.

The updated OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard mandates that employers having employees with the potential of exposure to bloodborne pathogens must have a written Exposure Control Plan to prevent such exposures. The Exposure Control Plan MUST reflect changes in safety technologies and MUST document the evaluation of new safety products. Until now, there has been no central source for an infection control officer to identify and locate the devices they are required to consider and evaluate.

To assist medical facility exposure control departments to meet this regulation, this new reference source contains documentation and pictures of over 260 sharps injury prevention and bloodborne pathogen exposure prevention products. It is organized by device category and manufacturer to help healthcare workers find the information they are looking for. Just as the Physicians Desk Reference or PDR is the "go-to" book for information on pharmaceuticals, the Compendium has become THE source for safety products that help reduce healthcare worker's exposures to bloodborne pathogens. The Compendium is being sponsored by Premier Safety Institute, ISIPS, AOHP, NAPPSI, and Biomedical Safety Technologies, LLC.

By using the Compendium, healthcare facilities can quickly gather product information on virtually all sharps safety and blood exposure prevention products. Currently many healthcare facilities are not in compliance with the requirement of reviewing safety technologies because of the extreme difficulty of gathering the necessary product information to decide which devices to evaluate for their safety programs. Finally, over 100 medical device manufacturers are cooperating to keep MedicalSafetyBook.com, the Compendium's companion website, up-to-date with all of the medical devices that have been located or released since the latest release. Medical device manufacturers and MedicalSafetyBook.com are also cooperating to create a one-stop website for infection control professionals to procure samples of all the devices that they decide to evaluate.

APIC conference attendees can obtain additional information at the ISIPS booth, 437, located between the booths of Managing Infection Control and Merit Medical Systems, Inc. For more information send an email to [e-mail] or call 801-280-8797.