| In the past, percutaneous injuries and mucocutaneous exposures were considered to be an accepted occupational hazard for
the surgeon. Although the potential for injury, exposure, and contraction of blood-borne disease was well known, there
were no attempts to reduce risk of such events. Initially HIV and AIDS were considered to be rare and confined to
particular groups at high risk. This inaccurate notion changed rapidly as the disease reached epidemic proportions, and by
1987 the CDC recommended ―Universal Precautions,‖1 which state that blood and body fluid precautions be used with
zaopall patients. It was at this time that the CDC made their first recommendations for use of appropriate barrier protection
and against resheathing contaminated needles. This is to study the frequency of injuries with their relative cause of injury
and their preventive measures to overcome for prevention. . The study was designed to be a cross sectional study which
included both patients and health care professionals to assess the quality of surgical procedures and number of
percutaneous injuries in particular faced by the patients. Ethical clearance was established before starting of the study.
Patients who have accepted for the study followup of therapeutic outcome, and patients with percutaneous injuries have
been mainly involved into the study. Patients with other complicated injuries and patients with other comorbidities,
operation induced injuries other than percutaneous have been excluded from the study. From the study it can be concluded
that in the study site the number of injuries were more with resident surgeon and attending surgeon related percutaneous
injuries. Intestinal procedures and cardiac services related injuries are more compared to other procedure related
percutaneous injuries. From this study it is clear that oversight is the main cause for occurrence of injury during the
procedure and this can be minimized by following certain management guidelines that could be evaluated and established
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