Every May 5 we celebrate World Handwashing Day to make everyone aware that this simple fact can save lives and protect our health. Hygiene in surgical care SAVES LIVES: wash your hands. The improvement of hand hygiene practices in surgical services is a priority. After 10 years of the WHO program “Clean care is safer…
DEFINITION Handwashing is the vigorous rubbing of previously soaped hands, followed by rinsing with abundant water, in order to remove dirt, organic matter, transient and resident flora, and thus prevent the transmission of these microorganisms from person to person . The use of alcoholic solutions for handwashing is an alternative to take seriously into account…
The soap dispenser market of China’s more than 1.3 billion people is far less than that of the US and Europe. The market size of a soap dispenser in the US market is several times larger than that of the Chinese market. The reason is that apart from the decisive factors of consumers themselves, the…
Stainless steel is a common raw material for household products. It has many excellent properties, such as easy cleaning, not easy to rust, simple and elegant appearance, long service life, not easy to damage, corrosion and rust resistance, and very surface. Smooth and easy to clean. Stainless steel is commonly used in kitchen and bathroom…
Hand hygiene, the most important measure to avoid transmitting infections in health care, experts say In Spain, between 5-10% of patients will get an infection related to healthcare, according to the Epine study The doctor of the Preventive Medicine Service of the Hospital Quirónsalud Infanta Luisa, Sacred Heart and Field of Gibraltar Nuria López Ruiz…
Many studies have been conducted on the benefits of hand washing and on the effectiveness of the various elements involved in the operation, but relatively few on the contribution of hand drying to hygiene. For effective control of infections through hand washing, you should also ensure that not only your hands are completely clean after…
There is multiple scientific evidence that shows how staff hands transmit multi-resistant bacteria and colonize hospitalized patients. Ex .: 41% of hand cultures of health workers were positive for EVR (after patient care and before hand washing) Hayden M, Clin infect diseases 2000: 31 1058-1065 EVR can be recovered from numerous patient unit sites Hayden…
To understand the goal of hand hygiene it is essential to know the normal characteristics of the skin. The skin is normally colonized, and different areas of skin have different rates of bacterial colonies measured as: cfu / cm2; In the RN the areas of greatest colonization are: perineal-inguinal, umbilical, axillary, cervical, and lower limbs.…
The main problem with HAND HYGIENE is not related to the possibility of obtaining only good products, but to the lack of compliance with the norm. Numerous published studies conclude that health personnel wash their hands half of the times they are indicated and in general with less duration than recommended. The factors identified that…
HAND HYGIENE Handwashing with detergents or antiseptic soaps and water, alcohol-based soap solutions and surgical antisepsis. SOCIAL HAND WASHING Washing with common soap and water or detergent in order to remove the newly acquired flora and remove dirt. ANTISEPTIC WASH Washing of hands with water and antiseptic (soap or detergent) of broad microbial spectrum, in…