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SUMMARY
In the Department of Surgery Clinic Urdenor city of Guayaquil, elective and
emergency surgery are permanently realized with a plant staff of fourteen
practitioners, which are exposed to different occupational hazards such as
biological ones, so it was deemed necessary to determine the biological hazards
to which this personnel are exposed. The objectives of this research were: register
the affiliation of staff, determine the knowledge on Biological Hazards of the
staff, list the service infrastructure, and identify biological hazards depending
on the type of surgery performed in the period of investigation in the Surgery
Service. The universe of this study was composed of staff of the Department of
Surgery and Clinical Urdenor surgeries performed from July to September 2011.
The sample is the universe, since it is small. It was a retrospective, research,
correlational, and descriptive research. Most of the staff is male aged between
39 and 58; whit bachelor and post grade instruction and work permanence of 3 years
or longer. About biosafety knowledge, 71% surveyed people know about
biohazard, 50 % are already trained on risks labor, rules and protocols to minimize
the risk, 100% are acquired the knowledge to manage hospital garbage. The most
common accident is contamination with blood and body fluids, punctures and
cuts, on a monthly frequency from 1 to 3 in the 35,7% of the staff; hospital waste
management is known by 86%, occupational diseases in 14%, desire of biohazard
training in 79%, clean surgery 86%, contaminated 7%, and infected 7%. At
conducting an assessment of the surgery area, it was noticed there is an adequate
monitoring of the surgical environment. Environment conditions as humidity,
ventilation, air flow in the surgery department are in correspondence to the
characteristics recommended by WHO. In terms of clothing is completely
fulfilled, the use of protecting glasses is fulfilled only 50% of the personal,
hand washing is done when there is contamination with blood or body fluids in 100%,
in other activities it is occasionally performed, surgical antisepsis in the
patient surgical zone are met in 80%. The treatment of hospital waste is done by a
specialized company to do that duty. There is a lack of trained personnel for this
specific activity, the knowledge and application of biosecurity holds an average
of 60% of staff. The infrastructure facilities were rated as excellent in terms of
technical specifications and building design. An improvement plan was proposed
to minimize the risks by a schedule for prevention training, rules and procedures,
preparation of a datasheet for individual worker of the surgery service, with the
corresponding controls.