Peña VR, Rodríguez MJR, López CJM, Martínez HMT, Naranjo DO

Language: Spanish
References: 14
Page: 43-47
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ABSTRACT

Objectives. Determine the level of knowledge, level of contamination and conducts on the washing of hands in a emergency room. Design. Longitudinal study descriptive. Place. Service of emergencies of Regional Hospital 72 of the IMSS. (Mexican Institute of the Social Insurance) State of Mexico. Material and methods. The 23 nurses and physicians of the service of urgencies included in the study. Development in 3 phases, first in a work of shade to evaluate the conducts of the personnel on the washing of hands. The second where they were taken cultures of the same personnel and third where applied a questionnaire on knowledge in the universal precautions in the handling of hospitalized patients and the attitude to them in the washing of hands. Measures of central tendency and dispersions were used. Or of Mann-Whitney, analysis of correlation of Spearman’s and square Ji. Results. The washing of hands between the attention of each patient was of 12.1%. In physicians was of 8.4% with a time of washing of 18 seconds. In nurses of 18% with a time of washing of 15.8 seconds, with p ‹ 0.05. The number from colonies to the entrance of the nurses was greater with p ‹ 0.05. The level of knowledge was correlate in negative form with the number of cultivated colonies of germens in the hands at the beginning, during and end the work day. Conclusions. It practices it of washing of hands in the service of urgencies is low and it is associated to cultures of germens highly pathogens in the hands.

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