Infection control guidelines for Optometrists and Contact Lens Practitioners

摘要

Isolation of the AIDS virus from tears has heightened awareness of the continued need for optometrists to maintain office procedures that prevent cross‐infection between patients and between the optometrist and the patient. Infection control procedures are presented that minimise or eliminate the risk of contamination and enable contamination to be handled safely when it occurs. Guidelines for individual practitioners and institutions can be formulated from the information presente