Hygiene in hospital centers
Introduction
Hygiene is the set of knowledge and techniques that individuals must apply to control the factors that exercise or can exercise harmful effects on their health. Personal hygiene is the basic concept of cleaning, cleaning and care of our body. Part of the medicine that studies how to keep.
It has been applied in hospitals applying disinfectants in different hospitals and in different rooms. The rule that by health, the hands of one operation to another, these measures are called prophylactic. Make known and understanding the hygienic precepts, is an educating function.
Developing
Hygiene, cleaning and disinfection constitute, without a doubt, some of the most obvious measures in the prevention of infections within the health environment. Although they are activities with not very high recognition in healthcare centers, their value and contribution to care quality is more than obvious, and more and more bets on its real integration into clinical practice.
The concept of hygiene in the health field exists since ancient times, when chemical metals and substances were used as antiseptics to prevent infections. The notion of hygiene has evolved over time, however, it is from the nineteenth century when it acquires the relevance with which it currently has. It was in this century when the greatest milestones were achieved in relation to hands hygiene, getting among other achievements.
Decrease mortality in child fever of 40% to 0.23%. In recent decades, the perception of hospital hygiene has acquired a particular nuance, as an active part in the fight against infections related to healthcare (iras). Both cleanliness and disinfection are considered basic and fundamental non-clinical procedures for the normal activity of any hospital, assuming a great deployment of human and economic resources.
They also imply the participation of professionals from different fields and specialties, acting from the validation of the methods, to the financing or execution of the services. Despite the great advances achieved in technology and in hygiene, cleaning and disinfection, the great current concern for the impact of infections related to healthcare (IRAS).
As traditionally they have been called nosocomial infections (IN), it has increased awareness of best hygienic practices between health personnel, and adequate cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of hospital spaces. Disinfection can be performed through chemical procedures, using substances or mixtures of antimicrobial substances that destroy or suppress the growth of pathogenic microorganisms, whether bacteria, fungi or viruses and/or by physical procedures such as UV radiation and temperature.
Chemical methods are currently the method of choice, due to their ease of use and low cost, although as we will see below present certain disadvantages. With which care should be taken when applying the products, since when it comes to attending the patient, he could damage the patient.
The hospital environment is an environment subject to a continuous process of change and successive adaptations, the processes that govern the cleaning and disinfection services are not always updated with the frequency with which they should. Although the products used have changed and improved their properties, methodologies and protocols have varied relatively little in recent decades.
In this sense, the integration of innovation into services and processes development can be an excellent opportunity to review and redesign all protocols, and always do so by participating in change to all actors involved through mixed working groups, ofform that your professional work is valued and compliance with the measures established in current regulations are enhanced.
conclusion
The use of chemical and physical agents in the cleaning and disinfection processes must always be done following the manufacturer’s instructions and the recommendations and protocols established in each center, otherwise they can generate health risks of professionals of professionals. The Occupational Risk Prevention Law underlines the importance of adopting preventive measures in the work environment.
It is important to evaluate and eliminate, whenever possible, the risks associated with these practices, reduce risks in case they cannot be eliminated. To achieve these objectives, all hospital centers must develop action plans to avoid the occurrence of incidents, have corrective action plans and complementary measures in case incidents occur and carry out health surveillance programs of health professionals.
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