Esterilização a vapor em ciclo flash: análise das práticas realizadas pelos profissionais de enfermagem / Steam sterilization in flash cycle: analysis of the practical ones carried through by the nursing professionals

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The steam sterilization in flash cycle means any process of steam sterilization that processes items for immediate use, unwrapped and with insufficient time for drying. The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses recommend its for emergency situations and brings specific criteria for use. This research had as hypothesis that the use of steam sterilization in flash cycle by nursing professional is not restricted to emergency situations, opposing the official recommendations and literature. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the practical ones related to the sterilization in flash cycle. For the reach of this intention, information had been collected, through a questionnaire, of people in a national event carried through by the Brazilian Society of Nurses in Surgical Center, Center of Material and Sterilization and Anesthesic Recuperation (SOBECC), in order to get given how this process of sterilization has been executed. Of the 560 questionnaires delivered, 113 (20.1%) had been returned. About the characteristics of the respondents, 89.1% were nurses, presented age between 25 and 50 years, with average time of formation of 12,7 years, being the majority of the Southeastern region, 46,0% worked in Surgical Center (CC) and 36.0% in the Center of Material (CME), with average of performance in the service of 8,1 years. About the characteristics of the institution, 40.0% were of public institutions and 72.0% of general character. In relation to the use of the flash cycle, 41.0% carry through in to the conventional sterilizers, being that 69.0% had its sterilizers in the CME, place where 73.4% carried through the cleanness of the material. For this activity, 61.4% had defined rules, and 12.7% made it without detergent being that of the involved professionals in this process, 81.2% were of nursing. For situations of emergency more than 90.0% used the flash sterilization method, but a reasonable number of respondents (38.0%) used it as routine, what it confirmed the hypothesis of the research, demonstrating not the fulfilment of the recommendations of the international lines of direction and yes, the “adequacy” of an armory of instruments to take care of the surgical demand. Of who packed the material (62.2%), 84.0% reprocessed it in case that he were not used. The flash sterilization of implanted is carried through by only 8.0%. Of the respondents, 78.0% monitored the process in some way, also with chemical and biological pointer 46.7%. How much to the association of the frequency of use of the flash cycle with the presence of the table sterilizers it is inferred that the insertion of this equipment in the market has stimulated the use of this cycle for the professionals. In the study, it was perceived that the indices of who make it in inadequate way, considering all the reprocessing, are preoccupying. By these indices, the recommendations of the international lines of direction cannot be questioned, but it understands that the persistence in reeducation the professional of health and not simply to forbid it without giving goods justifications is an optimum way. The steam sterilization in flash cycle must be carried through just if all basic steps in the reprocessing of materials will be fulfilled

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nursing professional infecção hospitalar (enfermagem) steam sterilization the esterilização a vapor profissional de enfermagem infection hospital (nursing)

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