Quantification of hand hygiene compliance in anesthesia providers at a tertiary care center in northern India
Autor: | Neeru Sahni, Komal Gandhi, Manisha Biswal, Sandhya Yaddanapudi |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Hand washing
Epidemiology medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Health Personnel Neuraxial blockade India Tertiary care Tertiary Care Centers Intravenous cannula Hygiene Health care medicine Intubation Humans Anesthesia Hand Hygiene media_common Infection Control business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infectious Diseases Arterial line Guideline Adherence Health Services Research business |
Zdroj: | American journal of infection control. 43(10) |
ISSN: | 1527-3296 |
Popis: | Hand hygiene (HH) compliance continues to remain poor amongst anesthetists mainly because of multitasking and the need for repeated HH. We aimed to quantify HH compliance amongst anesthesia providers while performing anesthesia-related procedures inside operating rooms. The observations for HH before and after procedures, including placement of intravenous cannula, intubation, central line placement, arterial line placement, and neuraxial and peripheral nerve block, were made by a single observer in operating rooms where elective surgeries are carried out. The overall compliance of all health care workers was 39.6%. Resident physicians were less likely to be compliant than consultant physicians and there was significant variation in procedure-related HH with maximum compliance before neuraxial block (100%) followed by arterial line placement (93.7%), central line insertion (86.7%), and peripheral nerve block (80%) (P .001). The compliance after performing the above procedures was50% for all procedures. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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