%0 Journal Article
%T Nursing sutures in hospital emergency.
%A Moya Melendez
%A Raquel.
%A Vazquez Gonz¨¢lez
%A Antonia.
%A Aponte Tomillo
%A Inmaculada.
%A Beardo Rodr¨ªguez
%A Gema.
%J P¨¢ginasenferurg.com
%D 2010
%I Plataforma Enferurg
%X The wounds occupy an important place as far as the demands of care in a service of an emergency department, as hospitable as extra hospitable. The nursery staff faces different types of situations related to the wounds as the prevention of the infection that it is akey component in this fight, the accomplishment of aseptic techniques and the formality in the cares.The main aim of this study is to know the suture characteristics that the nursery staff does in our unit. For that a longitudinal descriptive study was realised from January to March of the 2009 using the statistical package SPSS 16.0 for the analysis of the data.According to the obtained results, most of the wounds are incises-bruised, cleanings, located in hands and fingers and that only affect skin. In order to stitch we give local anesthetic, thread of the 3/0 and dressings impregnated with povidona iodized.
%K Emergency department
%K wounds
%K suture
%K care followup report.
%U http://www.paginasenferurg.com/revistas/2009/diciembre/suturasenfermeria.pdf