Résumé:
During the last decades, acknowledgement of prejudice caused by nosocomial infections and research in the field of hand hygiene in human medicine have contributed to the development of infection control by hospital administrations. Despite the finding and recognition of hospital acquired infection cases in clinical settings, simple prevention measures and particularly hand hygiene are still unknown or not applied by healthcare workers in medicine.
The first part of this work is a bibliographic synthesis of knowledge in The infections associated with care and in hand hygiene.
The second part is an experimental study of hand hygiene at HPI Che Guevara's hospital evaluating the responses of 50 people to a questionnaire. It aimed at studying the knowledge and practices of hand hygiene of staff.
The washing of hands, following the work of Semmelweis is recognized for more than
A century as an effective measure for the prevention of infections. The infections associated with care represent a major public health problem in the world, being responsible for a heavy
morbidity and a non-lethality negligible.
70% of the infections associated with care are manu litters. The main methods of prevention and fight against these infections is the hygiene of hands and the promotion of this last,
through the introduction of the method by friction with hydro-alcoholic gel which is the
preferred method in most situations.
The use of the solution hydro-alcoholic has the advantage in relation to the washing of the hands of traditional power be achieved quickly without travel, in the absence of sink and mainly active on all the micro-organisms
