scholarly journals Protecting the health of medical personnel in the light of prevention of nosocomial infections and occupational exposure

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
N V Ilyina
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Occupational Exposure ◽  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Nosocomial Infections ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Care Workers

Prevention of nosocomial infections and occupational diseases among health care workers is an important component of the activity of the station for blood transfusion. This article outlines the directions and shows how this is prevention should be achieved.

Importance of the universal precautions among health care personnel and its impact against Covid-19 spread - A survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 675-684
Author(s):  
Preethi Shankar ◽  
Abilasha R ◽  
Preetha S
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Health Care Personnel ◽  
Universal Precaution ◽  
Universal Precautions ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Standard Set ◽  
Spread Of Infection

Universal precautions are a vital standard set of rules applied to be followed by patients and doctors while carrying out any clinical procedure, but especially in patients with blood-borne diseases or infections. It is carried out to prevent the spread of infection from one person to another. Universal precautions are of great significance to medical personnel, where they expose themselves to numerous infectious diseases. The research aimed to assess and improve knowledge about universal precautions among health care personnel to reduce the rate of harmful exposure and infections among them. A questionnaire comprising 20 questions was created and circulated among 100 health care workers through the online platform "Google forms". The results were collected and analysed. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS. It was evident that many people were not aware of the seriousness of universal precautions. Fortunately, many medical personals followed and were aware of universal precaution to an extent. Universal precaution should be followed religiously and judiciously to prevent the spread of deadly diseases.

On the issue of criteria for recognition of occupational disease as an insured event in health care workers

2020 ◽  
pp. 618-619
Author(s):  
L. V. Dovgusha ◽  
N. N. Petruhin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Rehabilitation Measures ◽  
Professional Capacity ◽  
Insured Event

The publication deals with cases of occupational diseases in medical workers, in which the degree of loss of professional capacity is not determined, but patients need medical rehabilitation measures.

Self-assessment by medical workers of the degree of influence of working conditions on the development of occupational diseases

2019 ◽  
pp. 463-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. N. Petrukhin ◽  
O. N. Andreenko ◽  
I. V. Boyko ◽  
S. V. Grebenkov
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. The activities of health workers are associated with the impact of many harmful factors that lead to loss of health. Compared with other professional groups, health care workers are ill longer and harder, which may be due to polymorbidity pathology.The aim of the study based on the survey data to study the representation of health workers about working conditions and to identify their impact on the formation of occupational diseases.Materials and methods. In order to get a real idea of the attitude of medical workers to their working conditions in 2018, an anonymous survey was conducted of 1129 doctors and 776 employees of secondary and junior medical personnel working in health care institutions in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Vologda and Orel.Results. Research of working conditions and health of physicians allowed to establish that work in medical institutions imposes considerable requirements to an organism of working, its physical condition and endurance, volume of operational and long-term memory, ability to resist to mental, moral and ethical overloads.Conclusions: The most important method of combating the development of occupational diseases is their prevention. Organizational and preventive measures should be aimed primarily at monitoring the working conditions and health of medical staff .

scholarly journals Awareness among health care professionals regarding nosocomial pathogens and role of fomites in their transmission.

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (05) ◽  
pp. 1032-1037
Author(s):  
Khadija Mumtaz ◽  
Nadia Aslam ◽  
Naima Mehdi ◽  
Nazma Kiran ◽  
Sadaf Farzand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Nosocomial Infections ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Nosocomial Pathogens ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Health Care Associated Infections ◽  
Tract Infections

Objectives: This study was performed to access the knowledge of health care professionals regarding health care associated infections, nosocomial pathogens, fomites and their role in transmission of nosocomial pathogens. Study Design: Descriptive, questionnaire based, cross-sectional study. Setting: Tertiary care hospital of Lahore, Punjab. Period: From October 2017 to January 2018. Material & Methods: Questionnaires were carefully formulated to access basic knowledge of physicians, surgeons and nurses. Responses given were analyzed and recorded as frequency and percentage. Results: Regarding health care associated infections, respiratory tract infections were identified by 72% surgeons, 65% physicians and 59% nurses. Surgical wound infections were identified by 76% of surgeons and 81% nurses. 45.7% physician identified bacteraemia as nosocomial infection. Rate of identification for rest of nosocomial infections was sub optimum (<50%) by health care workers. Regarding identification of nosocomial pathogens, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus was marked by 65% of physicians, 83.8% of nurses, 76% of surgeons. Pseudomonas nosocomial pathogen was identified by 40%, 46% and 64% of physicians, nurses and surgeons respectively. The rate of identification for rest of the nosocomial organisms was again sub optimum (<40%) by health care workers. Regarding fomites, mattresses and pillows, thermometer, stethoscopes were identified by 75.7%, 59.2 and 50% of Health care professionals respectively. Conclusion: This survey identified positive attitude among Health care workers towards infection control but low level of knowledge regarding health care associated infections and nosocomial pathogens. Therefore, to prevent nosocomial infections, there is strong need to develop strategies for improving knowledge of Health care professionals.

COVID-19 in healthcare workers (literature review and own data)

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Lyubov A. Shpagina ◽  
Lyudmila P. Kuzmina ◽  
Olga S. Kotova ◽  
Ilya S. Shpagin ◽  
Natalya V. Kamneva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Main Group ◽  
Panic Attacks ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Occupational Infection

Introduction. Health care workers are at risk of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, many aspects of the professionally conditioned COVID-19 are still poorly understood. The aim of study is to conduct a brief review and analysis of scientific data on the prevalence, features of clinical and laboratory COVID-19 syndromes in medical professionals. To evaluate the structure of post-COVID syndrome in health care workers who are observed in a large multidisciplinary medical organization that has a center for occupational pathology. To present the current state of the problem of examination of the connection of COVID-19 with the profession and admission to work in conditions of high risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Materials and methods. At the first stage, a brief review of the literature on the problem of COVID-19 in health care workers was performed, at the second - a single-center observational prospective study of COVID-19 convalescents. The main group consisted of health care workers (n=203), the comparison group - people who do not have occupational health risks (n=156). The groups were comparable in demographic characteristics. The work experience of the medical staff was 15 (5; 21) years. Of the participants in the main group, 20.2% worked in hospitals, and 79.8% in outpatient institutions. Three of the participants (1.5%) were employees of specialized COVID hospitals. Doctors were 25.6%, secondary medical personnel - 51.7%, junior medical and technical personnel - 22.7%. A severe form of COVID-19 was suffered by 25 (12.3%) people, after the artificial ventilation of the lungs (AVL) - two participants. The observation time is 60 days. Statistical analysis included standard methods of descriptive statistics, determination of relationships by the method of logistic regression. The significance level is p<0.05. Results. Most of the known data on COVID-19 in health care workers is obtained in cross-sectional studies. The possibility of occupational infection has been sufficiently proven. The risk probably depends on the work performed and is higher in conditions of direct contact of medical personnel with adults, potentially infected patients, but not in a specialized hospital. It is possible that the course of COVID-19 in health care workers differs from the general population of patients there is evidence of a greater frequency of weakness and myalgia. Studies of the features of post-COVID syndrome in health care workers in available sources could not be identified. According to the results of their own research, health care workers who had experienced COVID-19 had a higher frequency of central thermoregulation disorders, arrhythmias, heart failure, panic attacks and depression. Conclusions. Health care workers are at risk of COVID-19. Professionally conditioned post-COVID syndrome is characterized by the frequency of violations of the central mechanisms of thermoregulation and arrhythmias. COVID-19 in health care workers meets the definition of occupational disease.

scholarly journals Occupational Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids among Health-Care Workers in Serbia

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Markovic-Denic ◽  
Natasa Maksimovic ◽  
Vuk Marusic ◽  
Jelena Vucicevic ◽  
Irena Ostric ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Occupational Exposure ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Body Fluids ◽  
Care Workers
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