Purpose
The general purpose of this research was to evaluate the potential forcross-infectionof x-ray cassetes (or image receivers) that get in contact with patients.
The specific purposes are:
To access if there are significant differences between the amount of bacterias effectivelly present in the patient and the amount that patient maypass to the image receiver;
To access if there are significant differences between the amount of bacterias effectivelly present in the patient and the amount that patient passed to the image receiver;
Evaluate the types of...
Methods and materials
The amount of bacteria present is evaluated by counting the number of colony-forming units (CFU) in a 47mm petri dish.
It is possible to seean example of the petri dish and respective CFU over the sterile membrane in Fig. 1.
To access the CFU that may pass to the receiver,a sterile membrane were swabed,
with a sterile tweezer,in themedial sternum,
another in the epigastric region and another in the interscapular zone.
Then,
the sterile membre was placed in a sterile 47mm petri dish with a...
Results
The sample was composed by 7 patients,
selected by convenience,
that accepted to participate.
The meannumber of colony-forming units (CFU) that were effectivelly present in the patient was 38.19.
This value was usedasreference for CFU that may pass to the receiver and theCFU that passed to the receiver.
The normalized results can be seen in Fig. 2.
When compared the types of swab collection,
the only significative difference was seen between the effectiveCFU present in the patient and the CFU that passed to the receiver...
Conclusion
This research allowed to verify that there is a significant difference between the colony-forming units (CFU) effectivelly present in the patient and amount that patient passed to the image receiver,
but there was not significant difference between the first ones and the amount that patient maypass to the image receiver.
This means that bacterial charge from patient will not pass entirely to receiver,
being considerably lower.Also,
the main type of bacteria present in this research was streptococcus,
followed by staphylococcus aureus and staphylococcus epidermis.
The...
Personal information
Ana Brás (BSc),
Collaborator in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department,
Health School - University of Algarve,
Portugal.
Radiographer in Centro Hospitalar do Algarve - Portimão,
Portugal.
Kevin Azevedo (PhD).
Professor in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department,
Health School - University of Algarve,
Portugal.
Radiographer in Centro Hospitalar do Algarve - Faro,
Portugal.
E-mail:
[email protected]
António Abrantes (PhD),
Professor in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department,
Health School - University of Algarve,
Portugal.
Researcher in CICS.NOVA (Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences,
Faculty of Social...
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