Biossegurança no ambiente funerário

Abstract

Funerary workers are often exposed to certain chemicalmethods and substances that refer to the harmful risks. Weimagine that in order to acquire an infectious contagiousdisease, the target patient must be found in the livingconditions, however the transmission capacity extends to alifeless body. Some infectious diseases can be linked by thecadaver, so the work is to emphasize biosafety in thecleaning, handling and transportation of cadavers as well asinvestigating and analyzing the level of knowledge of theworkers involved in the Possible imminent risks, the properuse of protective equipment and the procedures performedby the funerary agencies of the municipality of Trindade. Inthe case of a descriptive exploratory study, a questionnairewith semi-open questions was applied to employees workingin the area of cleaning, transportation of corpses and directhandling of these. The interviewees of this study in theirentirety (100%) are aware of what PPE is, 100% of the agentsmake use of latex gloves; disposable masks and scrubs. Ofthe funerary agents interviewed 100% reported the use ofnew materials, with no reuse and only 50% auxiliaries saythe same. When the risk map 67% of the funerary agents areunaware of how much 33% are aware, and 75% of the scopeof the cleaning do not know the risk map, the other 25% didnot respond. All agents (100%) receive the cause of deathand 100% of all respondents received training. In the presentresearch 100% of the employees report that the cleaning ofthe funerary vehicles is done every day and 99% that thewashing is done at the funeral home itself. Among theproducts 100% of the interviewees described soap, sanitarywater and alcohol 70 as the most used. On standardoperating Procedures (POP's) 33% of the agents know and100% of the cleaning assistants have no knowledge aboutsuch. Just as in a laboratory environment every biologicalsample is regarded as a contaminating article, every corpsemust also be seen as a contagious medium, becausedepending on the pathogeny present, the corpse will notconfer a threatening appearance to itself. Even with all theknowledge of the employees about what the PPE would beand the training submitted to it, there is still the need toestablish monitoring of protective equipment, because thepresent research showed the adequate and satisfactory useof such Equipment only by the funerary agents.