LABORATORY OF PATHOLOGY ONLINE POLICY MANUAL

• Antiseptics and Disinfectants. Activity, Action and Resistance. G. McDonnell and A. Russell, Clinical Microbiology Reviews. Jan 1999. Pp. 147-179.
• Biological Safety, Principles and Practices. D. Fleming, D. Hart. ASM Press, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC 2000.
• CC Isolations Guidelines (“flipchart”): http://www.cc.nih.gov/hes/CC/flipchrt/flipchrt.html
• CC Universal Precautions Web site: http://www.cc.nih.gov/hes/CC/up_book.html
• Clinical Center Safety Committee at http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/safety/index.html
• CDC. Morbidity and Mortality Weeklly Report. Guideline fo Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. October 25, 2002. Vol. 51. No. RR-16.
• Conversations with Maureen George, RN, MSEd, CNOR, OCN, Nurse Coordinator, Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Services, CC/SURG/NIH
• Division of Safety at http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/ds/index.htm
• Fitzgibbons, P.L, LiVolsi, V.A, the Surgical Pathology Committee of the CAP, & the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. Recommendations for the handling radioactive specimens obtained by sentinel lymphadenectomy. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 24(11): 1549-1551,2000.
• Laboratory Safety at the NIH. NIH, Safety Division. 1993.
• NCCLS guidelines GP17A: Clinical Laboratory Safety; Approved Guideline (1996)
• OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Rule: http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/bloodbornepathogens/index.html
• OSHA Hazardous Communication Rule: http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/hazardcommunications/index.html
• Universal Precautions, Government Publication, Department of Health and Human Services, Center of Disease Control, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 1987.
• Written communications with Barbara Fahey, RN, Nurse Consultant, HES
• Written communications with John Jacobus, Radiation Health Physicist, Radiation Safety Branch, Division of Safety, OD/ORS.

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