Conocimiento y aplicación de medidas de aislamiento intrahospitalario para tuberculosis en un hospital nivel 2 de Cali, 2019

Abstract

The present study was developed in order to identify knowledge about tuberculosis and the application of respiratory isolation measures in personnel of health of a hospital 2nd level in Cali. For this, a structured survey was applied that allowed the sociodemographic characterization and identification of the knowledge that 39 health workers have about TB. In this way it was possible to know that most of them are women (59.6%), under 36 years old (71.8%), mostly technicians-technologists (51.2%), with 35.9% of head nurses and doctors with less than a seniority one year (56.4%), only 7.69% have worked in the emergency department for more than three years. 14.2% of them do not have the necessary knowledge to manage TB which becomes a risk for which the hospital must generate an action plan, finally in relation to isolation measures, the N95 cap is considered an effective barrier for TB 92.3% of the population as labor risk decreases but for its implementation the difficulties presented in the hospital to supply this element to the population of workers exposed to TB must be overcome.