[Implementation of safety devices: biological accident prevention]. / Implantación de material de biosegurida: prevención de accidentes biológicos.

UNLABELLED: Accidental exposures to blood and biological material were the most frequent and potentially serious accidents in healthcare workers, reported in the Prevention of Occupational Risks Unit within 2002. BACKGROUND: Evaluate the biological percutaneous accidents decrease after a progressive introduction of safety devices. Biological accidents produced between 2.002 and 2.006 were analyzed and reported by the injured healthcare workers to the Level 2b Hospital Prevention of Occupational Risk Unit with 238 beds and 750 employees. The key of the study was the safety devices (peripheral i.v. catheter, needleless i.v. access device and capillary blood collection lancet). Within 2002, 54 percutaneous biological accidents were registered and 19 in 2006, that represents a 64.8% decreased. There has been no safety devices accident reported involving these material. Accidents registered during the implantation period occurred because safety devices were not used at that time. Safety devices have proven to be effective in reducing needle stick percutaneous accidents, so that they are a good choice in the primary prevention of biological accidents contact.

Implantación de material de bioseguridad: prevención de accidentes biológicos / Implementation of safety devices: biological accident prevention

Las exposiciones accidentales con sangre y material biológico constituyeron los accidentes más frecuentes y potencialmente graves en el personal sanitario, notificados en la Unidad de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales en el año 2002. Objetivos: evaluar la efectividad, en cuanto a la disminución de accidentes biológicos percutáneos, tras la implantación progresiva de material de bioseguridad. Se analizaron los accidentes biológicos notificados de forma voluntaria por parte del trabajador accidentado, desde el año 2002 al 2006, al Servicio de Prevención de un hospital de nivel 2 b, con 238 camas polivalentes y una plantilla de 750 trabajadores. La variable del estudio fue el material de bioseguridad: catéter intravenoso periférico, sistema cerrado de acceso intravenoso sin aguja y lanceta de punción capilar. En el año 2002 se registraron 54 accidentes biológicos vía percutánea y 19 en el 2006 representando una reducción de un 64,8%. No se ha notificado ninguno en el que esté implicado el material de bioseguridad. Los registrados durante el periodo en el que se implantó dicho material se produjeron al no utilizarlo en ese momento. El material de bioseguridad ha demostrado ser efectivo para la disminución en la notificación de accidentes por punción percutánea, constituyendo una buena opción para la prevención primaria de los accidentes por contacto biológico(AU)

Accidental exposures to blood and biological material were the most frequent and potentially serious accidents in healthcare workers, reported in the Prevention of Occupational Risks Unit within 2002. Background: Evaluate the biological percutaneous accidents decrease after a progressive introduction of safety devices. Biological accidents produced between 2.002 and 2.006 were analyzed and reported by the injured healthcare workers to the Level 2b Hospital Prevention of Occupational Risk Unit with 238 beds and 750 employees. The key of the study was the safety devices (peripheral IV catheter, needleless IV access device and capillary blood collection lancet). Within 2002, 54 percutaneous biological accidents were registered and 19 in 2006, that represents a 64.8% decreased. There has been no safety devices accident reported involving these material. Accidents registered during the implantation period occurred because safety devices were not used at that time. Safety devices have proven to be effective in reducing needle stick percutaneous accidents, so that they are a good choice in the primary prevention of biological accidents contact(AU)