The objectives were to identify occupational exposure of community health workers to biological material; to characterize the means of exposure, organic secretions and circumstances involved; to describe the behaviors adopted, and verify the participation of these workers in training on biological risk and biosafety. Descriptive cross-sectional study. Participants comprised 80 workers of the 89 members of famil...
Objective: to report the experience of planning and implementing biosafety measures for intraoperative care for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients. Method: experience report developed in the operating room of a teaching hospital, between March and May 2020. The report consisted of four stages - Formation of the working group for planning the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP); Preparation of the SOP; Impl...
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Objetivo: definir as competências para a prevenção e o controle de infecções relacionadas à assistência à saúde que devem ser desenvolvidas pelo enfermeiro generalista e pelo enfermeiro especialista em controle de infecções no Brasil. Método: empregou-se a técnica Delphi, desenvolvida em quatro rodadas. Participaram do estudo 31 enfermeiros e oito médicos com expertise em prevenção e controle de infecções. Para...
This study aimed to identify and analyze Brazilian recommendations and legislation related to biological risk among health workers. This is a documentary research that researched the legislation and recommendations published from June 1978 to December 2015, by consultation of digital documents of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, Ministry of Health/National Agency of Sanitary Vigilance and "riscobiologico.o...
The health surveillance service, similar to nursing, has its origin justified by the worries with people’s health. Despite of being quite relevant the nurse contribution for the health surveillance service, this service keeps less known by the nursery professionals of the area. This study has the purpose to show the context of the health surveillance service while possibility in nursery care, contributing to th...
Among the dentistry and medical articles the tubular dispositive requires special attention to the reprocessing due to lumen cleaning difficulty, and also organic material retention allowing biofilm establishment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sterility of 30 latex pipes submitted to the sterilization process by vapor in autoclave" in a hospital of Goiania-GO. The latex pipe was cut transversely in ...
Despite the importance of hands in the chain of transmission of hospital infections (IH) and the effects of the procedures for hygienisation lowering the rates of infection, many professionals are passive in the face of the problem, while the services take little unique and creative ways to engage professionals in educational campaigns for hygienisation of hands (HM). Quantitative study, carried out from August...
The glutaraldehyde widely used in the reprocessing of endoscope for the advantages and low cost presents high toxicity and can expose the professionals to occupational risks. Descriptive research carried through digestive endoscope services in Goiânia-GO/ Brazil by means of a questionnaire and direct observation registered in check list, characterized the occupational exposure in professionals who reprocess end...
Throughout history several researchers have shown that hand hygiene is an effective procedure to prevent infections associated with healthcare. However, adherence rates towards such practice are still low, which demonstrates that the information is not reaching its main goal, the behavior change. The aim of this paper is to show a strategy to incentive hand hygiene. Its premise is the relevance of hand hygiene ...