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Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board Meeting
Rome, Italy, March 17-18, 2005
- Meeting Programme -
Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and other blood-borne infections in healthcare workers
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Session 1 Opening and objectives
Chair: Vincenzo Puro and Nedret Emiroglu
09.00 - 09.20
Session 2 Global epidemiology of hepatitis B and C virus infections in healthcare workers
Chair: Alessandro Zanetti and Peter Grob
09.20 - 09.55
Prevalence of HBV and HCV in healthcare workers 1073 Kb (.pdf)
Annarosa Floreani, Padua, Italy
09.55 - 10.35
Definitions: exposure-prone procedures, nosocomial infection, viral-load thresholds for HBV, HCV, and HIV infectivity 1222 Kb (.pdf)
Vincenzo Puro, Roma, Italy
10.35 - 11.10
Coffee break
11.10 - 11.45
Occupational fraction of HBV and HCV infections in healthcare workers globally 576 Kb (.pdf)
Annette Prüss-Üstün, Geneva, Switzerland
11.45 - 12.20
Risk assessment of occupational and nosocomial HBV / HCV infection by type of clinician and procedure 708 Kb (.pdf)
Lidia Proietti, Catania, Italy
12.05 - 13.35
Lunch
Session 3 Transmission of HBV and HCV as an occupational risk
Chair: Susan Goldstein and Paolo Bonanni
13.35 - 14.20
Transmission of blood-borne viruses in the healthcare setting 589 Kb (.pdf)
Gabriella De Carli, Roma, Italy
14.20 - 14.45
Look-back (retrospective) studies 367 Kb (.pdf)
Vincenzo Puro, Roma, Italy
14.45 - 15.20
Healthcare-related outbreaks of hepatitis B and C in the United States 469 Kb (.pdf)
Ian Williams, Atlanta, USA
15.20 - 15.50
Coffee break
Session 4 Primary and secondary prevention of HBV and HCV infections in healthcare workers
Chair: Antoon De Schryver and Steven Wiersma
15.50 - 16.20
General precautionary measures 1590 Kb (.pdf)
Andreas Kopka, Glasgow, United Kingdom
16.20 - 16.45
Post-exposure management of occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens 494 Kb (.pdf)
Fortune Ncube, London, United Kingdom
16.45 - 17.10
Co-infected healthcare workers 538 Kb (.pdf)
Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Tourcoing, France
17.10 - 17.35
Should patients be tested before undergoing invasive procedures? 139 Kb (.pdf)
Johannes Hallauer, Berlin, Germany
Friday, March 18, 2005
Session 5 Recommendations for HBV-, HCV-, or HIV-positive healthcare workers and (para)medical students
Chair: Françoise Roudot-Thoraval and Daniel Lavanchy
09.00 10.00
Feedback from the EASL study (Gunson et al., 2003) 397 Kb (.pdf)
Daniel Shouval, Jerusalem, Israel
10.00 - 10.35
Current vaccination policies for healthcare workers, including booster policies, vaccination coverage, and serological testing 290 Kb (.pdf)
Antoon De Schryver, Gent, Belgium
10.35 - 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 - 11.35
Quantitative HBV DNA measurements and the management of infected healthcare workers 782 Kb (.pdf)
Annemiek van der Eijk, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
11.35 - 12.05
Inventory of current recommendations 469 Kb (.pdf)
Kirsty Roy, Glasgow, United Kingdom
12.05 - 14.15
Lunch
Session 6 Conclusions of the meeting
Chair: André Meheus and Daniel Shouval
14.15 - 16.00
Presentation of the VHPB meeting conclusions, including discussion
David FitzSimons, Geneva, Switzerland
16.00
Close of the meeting