Health professionals' practices related with tourniquet use during peripheral venipuncture: a scoping review. / Práticas relacionadas ao uso do garrote durante a punção venosa periférica: uma revisão de escopo.
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem
; 27: e3125, 2019 Apr 29.
Article
em Pt, En, Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31038627
OBJECTIVES: during peripheral venipuncture, health professionals are recommended to use a tourniquet above the puncture site in order to potentiate venous distension. Given its characteristics and use in clinical settings, tourniquets may represent a source of microorganism dissemination. However, the results of scientific studies in this area are scattered in the literature. This scoping review aims to map the available evidence on health professionals' practices related with tourniquet use during peripheral venipuncture and associated microbiological contamination. METHODS: scoping review following the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. Two independent reviewers analyzed the relevance of the studies, extracted and synthesized data. RESULTS: fifteen studies were included in the review. Overall, tourniquets were reused without being subject to recurring decontamination processes. It has been found that practitioners share these devices among themselves and use them successively for periods between two weeks and seven and half years. CONCLUSION: nursing practices related to tourniquet use during peripheral venipuncture are not standard. Reuse of tourniquets may jeopardize the patient's safety if reprocessing (cleaning and disinfection/sterilization) is not adequate, given the type of tourniquet material and microbiota found. New studies are needed to assess the impact of various types of reprocessing practices on tourniquet decontamination and patient safety.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Prática Profissional
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Torniquetes
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Cateterismo Venoso Central
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Desinfecção
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Pessoal de Saúde
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Flebotomia
Tipo de estudo:
Systematic_reviews
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
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Es
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Pt
Revista:
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem
Assunto da revista:
ENFERMAGEM
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Portugal
País de publicação:
Brasil