Cumplimiento de higiene de manos en el personal de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos UCI de un Hospital de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

WHO uses the compliance rate (actions/opportunities) as the main indicator to objectively evaluate its implementation. Hand washing with soap and water, or with hydroalcoholic solutions, is one of the most accepted clinical practices today, and given the epidemiological context and contact precautions, in addition to the general ones, it should be one of the pillars of clinical and healthcare personnel care, especially in critical care areas. Objective: To identify hand hygiene compliance in the 1st and 4th moment by health personnel in the intensive care unit area of a hospital in the city of Guayaquil, period May to July 2021. Methodology: Direct observational and cross sectional study, using the WHO hand washing compliance form, the personnel of the different intensive care areas were evaluated. Results: with a total of 199 health personnel (8.16% attending physicians, 17.52% nursing, 28.70% resident physicians, 29.61% Aux Nursing, 8.76% terrestrial, 7.25% others), a total of 545 opportunities were obtained at moments 1 and 4, with 465 actions executed; calculating a compliance of 60.73%. Conclusions: It was evidenced that in the first and fourth moments there was not a percentage according to what an intensive care unit should have and that the personnel evaluated do not comply with the main measure which is hand washing.