title: How to handle blood and body fluids.
abstract: Blood and body fluids and Universal Precautions have become part of the everyday vocabulary in health care. How body fluids are handled by individuals depends on their perception of risk for acquiring an infection from these substances and is not always based on sound knowledge. An understanding of how infections are acquired and the role of blood and body fluids as part of the risk is necessary if nurses and others are to use appropriate precautionary measures. Those parameters are discussed in this article.
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authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gurevich
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States