Gerenciamento de riscos: atuação interprofissional em centro cirúrgico

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the applicability of the safe surgery protocol by professionals working in the operating theater. General objective To analyze the performance of the interprofessional team of surgery in the applicability of the protocol of safe surgery of a surgical Center. The stated objectives were: describing the a completeness of professionals of the surgical staff to implement the safe surgery protocol; having knowledge of the actions of the professionals regarding the management of adverse events in the operation theater based on the safe surgery protocol of the World Health Organization, and analyzing the importance of the implementation of the surgical safety checklist from the professionals’ perspective. For a theoretical foundation, it has been used studies on risk management, patient safety, surgical safety and record checklist and the definition of operating theater. The methodology has a descriptive nature with a qualitative approach. The scenario was a general public hospital situated in a town in Zona da Mata mineira. The research was conducted in two stages: the first was a search for the medical records of patients who underwent surgical procedures from October 2013 to December 2015 for the analysis of the safe surgery filling-in protocol and the second was performed through a semi structured questionnaire, from March to May 2016, with 40 professionals who exercise their labor activities in the operating theater. The data we have found were listed in four thematic categories: if the professionals who belong to the surgical staff implemented the safe surgery protocol it was possible to stratify the number of surgeries performed quarterly, where 6,647 surgical procedures were performed in the analyzed period and 5,912 printed safe surgical protocols were filled in correctly, which is equivalent to the average of 90.2% correct filling of the Protocol during each surgical procedure, if they understand the adverse event in the OT, it was perceived that there was knowledge about the term adverse event, because the positions were in agreement with the principles and guidelines defined by the world health organization, but in some answers of some professionals of the category of medicine and nursing technician, they wrote more Exemplifying the concept of adverse event of what properly denominated this term. Risk, undesirable fact, injury, failures or error, impacts and damages to the patient were terms mentioned by the participants, showing this partial knowledge about the concept of adverse event, if

they take actions to manage adverse event It is perceived that the actions taken in relation to the management of the adverse event in this scenario would be as preventive barriers through the application of the safe surgery checklist that includes the reduction of the morbimortality of surgical patients. In addition, it gives surgical teams and hospital administrators guidance on the role of each and what is the standard of safe surgery, as well as provides a uniform assessment tool for the surveillance service, and if they had the perception of the applicability of the surgical safety checklist Where in the last category was evaluated each step of the protocol of safe surgery as to the degree of importance instituted in the questionnaire was extremely important the unimportant and also in this category was presented some difficulties listed by the participants, were obtained answers of: lack of participation of the Team, very long checklist, lack of time to fill in the data to be checked, lack of training to implement the checklist. It was observed that the mentioned difficulties circulated among nurses, doctors and nursing technicians. It was also verified that, among the professionals cited, the answers indicated that they did not have difficulties, however there was a respondent (nursing technician) who mentioned the term "laziness" in the filling related to the medicine part. It is considered that it is necessary to invest in permanent education, especially to deal with the difficulties when filling the checklist.