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Evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study
BACKGROUND: An anesthesiologists’ work presents with numerous occupational risks owing to the large amount of time spent inside the operating room where constant noise, anesthetic vapors, ionizing radiation, infectious agents, and psychological stress are present. Herein, we evaluated anesthesiologi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30567562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-018-0661-y |
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author | Kim, Daniel Dongiu Kimura Jr, Aldemar Pontes, Dayanne Karla Lopes Oliveira, Maycon Luiz Silva Cumino, Debora Oliveira |
author_facet | Kim, Daniel Dongiu Kimura Jr, Aldemar Pontes, Dayanne Karla Lopes Oliveira, Maycon Luiz Silva Cumino, Debora Oliveira |
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description | BACKGROUND: An anesthesiologists’ work presents with numerous occupational risks owing to the large amount of time spent inside the operating room where constant noise, anesthetic vapors, ionizing radiation, infectious agents, and psychological stress are present. Herein, we evaluated anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess 158 anesthesiologists from a tertiary hospital on their knowledge about occupational health using a structured questionnaire. RESULTS: The survey revealed a lack of knowledge on the forms of prevention of occupational accidents (74.6% did not know how to act in case of a fire during surgery, 56% failed to identify the post-anesthesia care unit as the place with the highest contamination by inhalation anesthetics, and 42.7% failed to identify all personal protective equipment) and a surprisingly high rate of lack of observance of preventive measures (30.3% washed their hands before touching every patient, 52.5% did not use gloves during intravenous access, and 88.6% used protective equipment against ionizing radiation). CONCLUSIONS: Despite improvements in safety standards in healthcare facilities, our research showed lack of knowledge about major topics on occupational health by physicians. Improving safety awareness is an important goal of training programs and continued medical education. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12871-018-0661-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-63009092018-12-31 Evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study Kim, Daniel Dongiu Kimura Jr, Aldemar Pontes, Dayanne Karla Lopes Oliveira, Maycon Luiz Silva Cumino, Debora Oliveira BMC Anesthesiol Research Article BACKGROUND: An anesthesiologists’ work presents with numerous occupational risks owing to the large amount of time spent inside the operating room where constant noise, anesthetic vapors, ionizing radiation, infectious agents, and psychological stress are present. Herein, we evaluated anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess 158 anesthesiologists from a tertiary hospital on their knowledge about occupational health using a structured questionnaire. RESULTS: The survey revealed a lack of knowledge on the forms of prevention of occupational accidents (74.6% did not know how to act in case of a fire during surgery, 56% failed to identify the post-anesthesia care unit as the place with the highest contamination by inhalation anesthetics, and 42.7% failed to identify all personal protective equipment) and a surprisingly high rate of lack of observance of preventive measures (30.3% washed their hands before touching every patient, 52.5% did not use gloves during intravenous access, and 88.6% used protective equipment against ionizing radiation). CONCLUSIONS: Despite improvements in safety standards in healthcare facilities, our research showed lack of knowledge about major topics on occupational health by physicians. Improving safety awareness is an important goal of training programs and continued medical education. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12871-018-0661-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6300909/ /pubmed/30567562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-018-0661-y Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kim, Daniel Dongiu Kimura Jr, Aldemar Pontes, Dayanne Karla Lopes Oliveira, Maycon Luiz Silva Cumino, Debora Oliveira Evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study |
title | Evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study |
title_full | Evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study |
title_short | Evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: Pilot study |
title_sort | evaluation of anesthesiologists’ knowledge about occupational health: pilot study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30567562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-018-0661-y |
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