A higienização das mãos como estratégia para o controle das infecções hospitalares: um estudo bibliográfico

Abstract

According to the Health Ministry the hospital infection is a acquired after the patient admission at the clinic, and can be during hospitalization or after discharge. They are acquired due to the non-aseptic techniques in procedures or cross transmission between the patients, also to the nurses hands are colonized with pathogens and be responsible for your transmission.This study has as goal to identify the importance of the washing hand as strategy of control to the hospital infections. It is a survey of bibliographical held by reading scientific papers on computerized database. After the study identified the hospital infection is a health public problem that increases spending on hospitals, making it necessary your prevention, hand hygiene being a simple practice with low cost how can save lives, but still is not enough.