Seguridad en los procesos de esterilización en la central de equipos

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the compliance of the sterilization process of a public institution of second level of attestation, the approach is quantitative, the design is of transversal descriptive type. The procedures performed by the personnel of nursing staff of the equipment central service of all the shifts were evaluated. The instrument was used: list of verification of sterilization processes it is concluded that majority of the personnel that work in the CE is female with more than 5 years of service, 50 are professionals, five dimensions were measured with indicators security of processes of sterilization, being sanitization, preparation and packaging, cycle of sterilization, storage, and control, sanitization 0 compliance, preparation and equipment and material is carried out in a minimum 39.5, sterilization cycle with 43.8, storage with 45.9 finally control with 39.5 compliance. The results of this research are below these indicators to be considered as safe being that the processes of risk of sterilization are risk processes with a score of 1-9