Ala. Admin. Code 420, ch. 420-4-3, app I, att. to Rule 420-4-3-.04

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 02, November 27, 2024

Attachment to Rule 420-4-3-.04 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PHYSICIAN'S NOTIFICATION OF HIV AND/OR HBV INFECTED HEALTH CARE WORKER

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INSTRUCTIONS: This form is to be completed and returned within seven (7) days of the time a diagnosis is made or provision of care of such. Completed forms are to be sent to the designee of the State Health Officer by marking the envelope "Personal and Confidential" and sending it to:

Director, Bureau of Communicable Disease

Alabama Department of Public Health

201 Monroe Street, Suite 1400

P. O. Box 303017

Montgomery, Alabama 36130-3017

Invasive Procedures as defined in the Infected Health Care Worker Management Act are:

(1) Those medical or surgical procedures characterized by the digital palpation of a needle tip in a body cavity or by the simultaneous presence of the health care worker's fingers and a needle or other sharp instrument or object in a poorly visualized or highly confined anatomic site.

(2) Invasive dental procedures shall include those that provide the opportunity for an intraoral percutaneous injury to the dental health care worker and could result in blood of the health care worker coming in contact with the blood or mucous membrane of the patient as adopted by the Board of Dental Examiners in rules developed pursuant to Section 11.

(3) These procedures shall not include physical examinations; blood pressure checks; eye examinations; phlebotomy; administering intramuscular, intradermal, or subcutaneous injections; needle aspirations; lumbar punctures; angiographic procedures; vaginal, oral, or rectal exams; endoscopic or bronchoscopic procedures; or placing and maintaining peripheral and central intravascular lines, nasogastric tubes, endotrachael tubes, rectal tubes, and urinary catheters.

ALABAMA PROCEDURES FOR ASSESSMENT AND PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OF HBV-, HCV-, AND HIV-, OR OTHER DISEASE SPECIFIED BY THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, INFECTED HEALTH CARE WORKERS (HCWs) FLOW CHART OF PROCEDURES

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Ala. Admin. Code 420, ch. 420-4-3, app I, att. to Rule 420-4-3-.04