| Journal: | Cogitare enfermagem |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000318663 |
| ISSN: | 1414-8536 |
| Authors: | Sarquis, Leila Maria Mansano1 Felli, Vanda Elisa Andres2 Miranda, Fernanda Moura D´Almeida Guimaraes, Hermann Valentin Oliveira, Giordano Pedro de |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Federal do Parana, Departamento de Enfermagem, Curitiba, Parana. Brasil 2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Season: | May-Ago |
| Volumen: | 10 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Pages: | 47-53 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Aplicado, analítico |
| Spanish abstract | que posibiliten minimizar la exposición a los riesgos a que esos trabajadores están expuestos y maximizar los recursos institucionales para la realización de la monitorización completa cuando expuestos a los fluidos biológicos |
| English abstract | Epidemiological research, cohort study with a quantitative approach, which objectified: characterize the health workers’ profile injured with biological fluids and to analyze their compliance to the established protocol by returning to the outpatient clinic for consultation after exposure. The study field was The Worker’s Outpatient Clinic at The Worker’s Hospital from Federal University of Paraná located in the city of Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil. Four hundred and ninety-one (491) records were analyzed fromApril to December/ 2004. Data were collected through follow-up records of accidents with biological material and through the emergency reports from the Emergency ward of this institution. Data analysis evidenced that the most subjects were female (80.4%), average age between 21 to 25 years (25.8%). The nursing practitioners were the most incident category (46%), followed by janitors in health units (12%). From those 491 records of the EmergencyWard for working place exposure to biological fluids, only 175 (35.6%) of the workers returned to their second appointment, after 30 days of the accident; 103 (21%) for the previously- fixed appointment after 90 days, and only 50 (10.2%) workers completed the follow-up and monitoring in the clinic. The accidents mostly happened due to contact with sharp- pointed instruments (88.6%). Just a small sample (11.4%) had eye membrane spills of biological fluids.We believe this can be a thought-provoking study for health managers and professionals to work out strategies to minimize health workers’ risk exposure as well as to maximize institutional resources in order to fully monitor them when exposed to biological fluids |
| Portuguese abstract | para a realização do monitoramento completo quando expostos a fluidos biológicos |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Hospitales, Salud pública, Accidentes de trabajo, Monitoreo, Salud ocupacional, Trabajadores, Exposición ocupacional, Fluidos biológicos |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Hospitals, Public health, Work accidents, Monitoring, Occupational health, Workers, Occupational exposure, Biological fluids |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
