Manejo de catéteres intravasculares centrales en el área de cuidados intermedios neonatales en el Hospital de Niños Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde. Año 2018.

Abstract

In the development of treatments and care that are applied to patients, it is common the management of "central intravascular catheters", in turn the management of these can expose to infectious as well as mechanical complications. The staff must develop their intervention in the management of these instruments based on up-to-date knowledge. Therefore, our Objective is to describe the practices performed by the nursing staff for the management of central intravascular catheters in the area of Neonatal Intermediate Care at the Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde Children's Hospital. The methodology used was descriptive, quantitative, prospective and crosssectional, a questionnaire consisting of 18 items with closed questions was applied to 152 employees of nurses of Neonatal Intermediate Care, together with a Bundle of CVC maintenance that served to observe the comparison guidelines. The Results showed that 68% of the nursing staff is over 30 years old, 61% have a nursing degree, 56% have a third level academic level, 42% work in this area from 11 to 20 years old, 56% have 1 to 10 years, 42% work in two or more institutions, 48% perform hand hygiene with soap and water, 82% know that there is a protocol for the management of catheters. Concluding that the majority of the nursing staff correctly develops the care of central intravascular catheters, but the bundle needs to be updated, so that they have updated knowledge.