Movie, Puncture, Exposes Hep B&C, HIV Dangers in Needlestick Injuries for Nurses; Healthcare Workers

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Sept. 20, 2011, 5:44 p.m. EDT

Movie Puncture Exposes Hep B & C, HIV Dangers in Needlestick Injuries for Nurses,

Healthcare Workers

The movie Puncture reveals the untold true story of the enormous risks faced

every day by nurses and healthcare workers exposed to dangerous and deadly

bloodborne pathogens (Hepatitis B, C and HIV) through accidental needlestick

injuries. plays the underdog attorney who takes on a medical device

monopoly that sacrifices nurse and healthcare worker safety by preventing access

to life saving needle innovations

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Captain America star

plays an unusual attorney in Puncture who takes up the cause of a

local ER nurse who contracts HIV after an accidental needlestick injury on the

job. He emerges as an unlikely hero who takes on a medical device monopoly,

fighting a landmark legal case to get safety needles into the hands of every

American healthcare worker.

Puncture reveals the untold story of the enormous risks faced every day by

nurses and healthcare workers exposed to dangerous and deadly bloodborne

pathogens Hepatitis B, C and HIV through contaminated needlesticks, sharps, or

splash exposures. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates

800,000 accidental needlestick injuries have occurred annually.

The underdog lawyer wages a contemporary and Goliath battle against the

medical device industry forces that block front line healthcare worker access to

proven safety needle innovation for blood drawing and infusion.

The classic " one person-against the odds " cautionary tale portrays the issues

leading up to the passage of the U.S. Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act 2000

and the added protection under the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Act

Administration (OSHA) and its Bloodborne Pathogens Standard.

For the global healthcare worker industry and advocacy community, Puncture

brings all the urgency and passion of this real-life story to screen,

illustrates the daily realities of the workplace and the underlying forces that

restrict the purchase and use of safer needle products.

Puncture opens Sept. 23 in New York (Empire 25, Sunshine), Los Angeles (The

Landmark) and Houston (River Oaks); Oct. 7 in additional cities such as San

Francisco, Chicago and Washington, D.C.; and will be everywhere this fall.

SOURCE Millennium Entertainment, LLC