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workplace clinic: Declining occupational diseases

124th Surgical Congress, 1 to 4 May 2007, Munich:

Less occupational diseases of nurses and doctors

Munich - The job offers clinic for care and surgical teams
some hazards such as infection, radiation exposure or injury.
These occupational diseases have been declining for decades. What measures protect
clinic staff can, is a subject of the 124th
Annual Meeting of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH) from 1
to fourth May in Munich takes place.

The commercial BGs as carriers of the statutory accident insurance
have already implemented numerous measures to prevent accidents or
infection. "This way we could reduce the risk of many
employees significantly," says Dr. jur.
Joachim Breuer, Managing Director of the Association of Industrial
Trade Associations (HVBG), St. Augustin / Bonn before the
Surgeons meeting.

For example, according to Dr. Brewer, were needlestick injuries: the number of
injuries and subsequent infections decreased significantly
used by the development of safe disposal systems for
syringes and needles. According to the manager HVBG worthwhile
preventive measures. A look at the numbers Brewer is right:
Reportable accidents in the catchment area of the professional associations
decreased since 1970 by 60 percent and fatal accidents by 78 percent. classified

In considering which diseases as diseases are
calls Dr. Breuer more say the specialists, "surgeon
orthopedic surgeons and pulmonologists - to name but a few - have a wide
knowledge in this area, which used can and must. " Previously it was
so that a medical expert advisory board for confidential Deliberations
takes decisions on whether a disease is caused professionally. News
discussed the Board of Advisors for osteoarthritis from activities in this
knees. "Need this discussion to be made more transparent, as is the
composition of the Board. This implies that a very complete picture
latest scientific and medical knowledge present. And
this can be achieved only with the expertise of specialists," says
Dr . Joachim Breuer ahead of Surgeons meeting.