Minding the Prevention Protocol for Blood-Borne Diseases via EM Residents

BACKGROUND: The emergency department (ED) is one of the high-risk places for blood-borne disease (BBD) transmission. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess the rate of adherence to preventive measures (PM) against the blood-borne diseases via emergency medicine (EM) residents. MATERIALS AND METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Mahfoozpour, Soad, Baratloo, Alireza, Hatamabadi, Hamidreza, Karimian, Kiandokht, Safari, Saeed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2013
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24350151
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/traumamon.9380
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: The emergency department (ED) is one of the high-risk places for blood-borne disease (BBD) transmission. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess the rate of adherence to preventive measures (PM) against the blood-borne diseases via emergency medicine (EM) residents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 80 emergency residents of an educational public hospital were observed with regard to abiding by the preventive measures from March to May 2010. RESULTS: Cleaning blood tainted skin before phlebotomy or IV line preparation and hand washing before donning latex gloves achieved the maximum (88/150) and minimum (0/150) scores. The most observed barriers of PM were frequent attendance of patients (85%), work load (80%), and need to work rapidly (68%). CONCLUSIONS: It seems that, the preventive instructions are not optimally respected by ERs possibly due to the crowded wards, high work load and the need to work rapidly.

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