Sentences with phrase «used needles»

Carefully handling and disposing used needles is also imperative in order to prevent needle sticks and exposure to someone else's blood.

There is also the risk of infecting corrections staff when they come in contact with used needles as there is no safe means for disposal.

Dispose of used needles and syringes in a sharps container that you can obtain from your veterinarian or pharmacy.

You must instead return used needles to a needle disposal center or use a mail - in sharps container.

Needle Disposal In the past, disposal of used needles and syringes was simple: You could simply place used syringes, lancets, and other sharps in a thick plastic container (such as the type liquid laundry detergent comes in) and when it was full, discard the entire container in the regular trash.

Needle Removal The first step in disposing of used needles is removing the needle from the drip set.

There are 29 sites throughout the county where citizens can dispose of prescription medications and used needles, to find a location nearest you please click the map for the Sheriff's Office locations or you can call 716-472-1998 for more information.

Nine police agencies, including the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department, are putting out collection bins in their offices for unused prescription and non-prescription drugs, as well as used needles.

«Additionally, these kiosks will aid immensely by taking used needles, which are a danger to all, and safely disposing of them.

The county is also operating the SEAD (Syringe Expanded Access and Disposal) Project to collect used needles, syringes & lancets free of charge.

Through the Erie County Expanded Syringe Access Program (ESAP), the Erie County Department of Health, along with representatives from the fields of Diabetes, HIV / AIDS, business, sanitation, law enforcement, pharmacy, spiritual, government, medicine and lay persons, created a partnership to safely dispose of used needles, syringes & lancets free of charge.

For one thing, drug addicts have probably found all the lake isles already and littered them with used needles, as they've done to the parks, and they may still be there, along with the child molesters.

If the lump is large, as in Arenas» case, a doctor should first use a needle to try and drain it.

But Arenas said on two occasions she's used a needle at home to do it herself.

Helpful gadgets in the kitchen are a must but I've never heard of using needle nose pliers to pit a cherry.

Later we can use the needle on the ones who need it.»

There are pediatric acupuncturists who specialize in babies and children, they do not use needles.

Now, after a decade of NHS care, she is able to use a needle and thread again and has developed a way of working and a design that doesn't cause too much of a strain on her hands — although she admits that the level of detail in each doll and outfit probably comes from wanting to ensure enough care and attention has gone into it, in case her hands fail her and this is the last one she ever makes.

Meet «thread painter» Emily Tull, who uses a needle as her paintbrush and threads as her paint to create extraordinary works of art.

Then we'll both clean up the edges of the separate bits using needle files, Stanley blades and wet and dry paper.

You take a ring — preferably your wedding or engagement ring — and tie it on a string (you can also use a needle instead of the ring).

Nearly all immunizations (also called vaccinations) need to be given into the muscle or under the skin using a needle and syringe.

Some moms of very oral babies choose to use a needle and thread to sew the front strap on and button it only in the back.

Because tattooing uses needles, it can — when not done with sterile technique — pass blood - borne infections such as HIV (which can be passed on to your baby through breast milk) or hepatitis (which can theoretically transfer to your baby through breastfeeding if your nipples are cracked).

If the lump is large, as in Arenas» case, a doctor should first use a needle to try and drain it.

But Arenas said on two occasions she's used a needle at home to do it herself.

As early as the fifth centuryB.C., Egyptian surgeons used a needle to push their patients «cataract - covered lenses away from their pupils, affording them somedegree of sight.

Rather than a surgical procedure, the technique uses a needle to introduce catheters into the heart.

Using inexpensive optical fibres, we have been able to achieve high resolution imaging using needle tips under 1 mm.

Using no needles and just a few drops of blood, Theranos claimed it could conduct hundreds of tests — for herpes, high cholesterol, hepatitis and even cancer.

You would also have to find a way to get it to the right spot in the brain without using a needle.

Then, it used its needle - like teeth as a sieve, trapping the plants and letting the water back out, like how whales filter - feed with their baleen,» explains Rieppel.

Researchers at IBM have created an elusive molecule by knocking around atoms using a needle - like microscope tip.

To minimize patients» discomfort, dentists use anesthetics that block the pain, which are administered using needles.

The doctors practiced a simulated, routine surgical procedure in which they sewed up a wound in a model patient's stomach using a needle and thread.

Yet the researchers, who have been engaged in tensile tests of cells for many years, experienced difficulties in controlling the hold position of cells under a microscope using a needle and a micropipette, and hypothesized that differences in the hold position yielded the experimental errors.

In the experiments, Sun used a needle - like glass pipette to partially aspirate and grab dye - filled GUVs, which were then placed into a melittin - infused solution beneath the microscope.

Before pollinating a flower, each female moths lays eggs inside it using a needle - like ovipositor, and as the pollinated flower develops into a fruit, her eggs hatch and the larvae eat some of the seeds developing alongside them.

Dr. Stephen Jett, Explora Portal to the Public Scientist, will show kids how Atomic Force Microscopy allows us to «see» structures with nanometer (or better) resolution using needles and mirrors.

However unlike acupuncture, which uses needles, EFT is based on tapping the energy points with your fingers, making it easier and safer to practice at home.

Acupressure is a bodywork technique that involves putting pressure on the meridian points associated with a particular ailment, instead of using needles as they do in acupuncture.

In the United States a heel stick test (using a needle prick on the baby's heel for a small blood sample) is done at the ripe old age of 3 days old to test for Phenylketonuria (PKU) and other disorders.

Doctor will first administer an aesthesia before using a curette to scour away the infected skin cells and then use a needle or a loop that is electrically heated to stop the bleeding as well as damage the remaining abnormal cells.

A: Your clinician will take blood from your arm using a needle.

While it's a preventable disease, many succumb to using the needle despite insulin's side effects, which are often devastating.

physical exertion will soon have your testosterone levels going through the roof — and I'm not talking about the kind that some people use needles for either — but genuine increases of the hormone that increases your sex drive.

There was once a time when I didn't even know the ABC's of using a needle to sew something, neither using a sewing machine.

You can use a needle to loosen them up if they're too tight!

Use a needle and thread to sew a wide basting stitch along the bottom of the fabric edge.

I then added each one to a long piece of embroidery string — using a needle made it so much easier to fish the string through those little holes!