Isolation precautions in patients with comunicable diseases in a third-level institution

Abstract

The concept of isolation for people with contagious diseases, was applied since biblical times, a sample are leper colonies, during the Crimean ar Florence Nightingale concludes the need to divide the communal rooms in cubicles and emphasizes the importance of asepsis and maintain clean environments, so changing the concept of the transmission of infections. With these examples we can see through the history as the concepts and procedures are getting better and advancing in order to control infections. In 1996, the Advisory Committee for Practice on Control of Hospital Infections (HICPAC) published the Guidelines for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals defining for it the standard precautions and precautions based on transmission. The objective of this study was to review the literature of different scientific articles about precautions for handling patients with contagious diseases in a third level institution, to verify whether or not standardization exists in the adquirecommendations and procedures in nursing daily practice. It focused on isolation precautions for patients with contagious diseases through an exhaustive review of various literature sources through electronic sources. As a result of that review we check that there is standardization in the recommendations for isolation of infectious patient. However, with the revision of textbooks from different institutions, we see that need to be more specific in the procedures, use and handling of material required to comply with the recommendations for isolation because a significant number of these manuals do not have these data. Well as availability and dissemination of these.