Prevalencia de accidentes biológicos en las clínicas odontológicas de la universidad Santo Tomás
Fecha
2015Registro en:
Hernández Sierra, L. J. Thyme Becerra, K. A. Rueda Carrascal, A. (2015). Prevalencia de accidentes biológicos en las clínicas odontológicas de la universidad Santo Tomás. [Trabajo de pregrado]. Universidad Santo Tomás, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
reponame:Repositorio Institucional Universidad Santo Tomás
instname:Universidad Santo Tomás
Autor
Hernández Sierra, Leidy Juliana
Thyme Becerra, Keila Aishell
Rueda Carrascal, Alexander
Institución
Resumen
Objectives: The objective of the research was to determine the prevalence of biological accidents in students from IV to X semester in the dentist clinics of the Universidad Santo Tomas.
Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted through a critical analysis of the most relevant data that was got by a collective instrument applied to 319 students of the school of Dentistry. The population chosen for this study were students from IV to X semester that realized their internships in the dentist clinics for adults and children of the Universidad Santo Tomas, Branch of Bucaramanga and Floridablanca.
Results: According to the sociodemographic frequency values related to the accident, a biological accident prevalence of 26.6% was found among students, women had a higher frequency of accidents with 70.6%, students who has more accidents were from the ninth semester with 41.2%
According to the frequency of factors related to the accidents we found that most students had just an accident. According to the type of lesion, we found that the most frequent accident was a superficial prick with the needle of anesthesia as the causal object, fingers were the most affected body part and a few students reported bleeding. Also, during the study was determined that most students performed the use of biosecurity elements during clinical practice, but not during washing and disinfection of the instruments that is the procedure with the highest prevalence of biological accidents, also just a few cases were reported and a few students took the appropriate actions post exposure.
Conclusion: The highest frequency of accidents was found in females, the most frequency accidents happened during the practice where the predominant accident was with the anesthesia needle associated with the encapsulation of itself, an unexpected patient movement during the anesthesia technique or because the student was in a hurry. On the other hand, parallel to this percentage, accidents happened after the use of instruments, at the washing moment or even in the drying, making this group one of the more severe according to the time when the accident occurred. The student behavior reflects the absence of knowledge of post exposure because a large percentage did not report accidents and know the actions to be taking according to the protocol.