Open AccessATENDIMENTO AOS PROFISSIONAÍS VÍTIMAS DE ACIDENTE COM MATERIAL BIOLÓGICO EM UM HOSPITAL DE DOENÇAS INFECTOCONTAGIOSAS
Author(s) -
Lillian Kelly de Oliveira Lopes,
Anaclara Ferreira Veiga Tipple,
Sirlene Neves Damando,
Cássia Silva Miranda,
Ivete Vieira Gomes
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
revista eletrônica de enfermagem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1518-1944
DOI - 10.5216/ree.v6i3.840
Subject(s) - accident (philosophy) , unit (ring theory) , occupational accident , medicine , occupational safety and health , medical emergency , university hospital , occupational exposure , psychology , occupational medicine , pathology , philosophy , mathematics education , epistemology
The occupational risk for the health´s workers is a subject discussed in the last decades. However, the professional accident involving biological material´s records in the health´s units don´t describe the real situation. The purpose of this article is to identify the number of attending of professional accident involving biological material and the source of the leading. The data were obtained by the professional accident´s handbooks in 2003. The hospital had 5768 appointments. Among these, 621 (10,76%) were about professional accident, 25 (4,03%) of this amount came from the own hospital and 596 (95,97%) from other services. The article verified that workers proceeding from big services are leaded to the hospital evaluated. It´s important to structure health´s services to optimize the worker´s attending in the original´s unit. KEYWORDS: Occupational accidents; Occupational risk; Occupational Accidents registry.
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