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Surtos de Doenças , Febre Hemorrágica da Crimeia/epidemiologia , Evolução Fatal , Febre Hemorrágica da Crimeia/enfermagem , Febre Hemorrágica da Crimeia/transmissão , Humanos , Transmissão de Doença Infecciosa do Paciente para o Profissional , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Espanha/epidemiologiaRESUMO
This study was carried out in order to determine knowledge and attitudes of emergency nurses about Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic Fever. This descriptive research was carried out where the disease is frequent, in six cities in Turkey. One hundred forty-three nurses who worked in the emergency room were recruited to the study. Data were collected with a questionnaire form and were analysed by chi-squared test. The mean age of the nurses was 31.0 ± 5.7 years. It was determined that 68.8% of the nurses claimed to have sufficient knowledge about the disease, 99.3% said that it was a virus that caused the disease, and 94.3% said that health-care personnel exposed to it were under great risk. It was concluded that most of the nurses had relatively good knowledge about the disease and that they did not want to run the high risk of infection and mortality by treating patients who had the disease.
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Enfermagem em Emergência , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Febre Hemorrágica da Crimeia/enfermagem , Recursos Humanos de Enfermagem/psicologia , Estudos Transversais , Febre Hemorrágica da Crimeia/epidemiologia , Humanos , Turquia/epidemiologia , Recursos HumanosAssuntos
Infecção Hospitalar/prevenção & controle , Febre Hemorrágica da Crimeia/enfermagem , Roupas de Cama, Mesa e Banho , Vestuário , Desinfecção , Febre Hemorrágica da Crimeia/prevenção & controle , Febre Hemorrágica da Crimeia/transmissão , Humanos , Respiração com Pressão Positiva/instrumentação , Respiração com Pressão Positiva/métodosRESUMO
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a rare disease in South Africa. From 1981 to September 1984, 8 sporadic primary cases were reported. An outbreak of CCHF in a large university hospital is described; of 8 patients diagnosed 2 died (the index and a secondary case). Four patients were seriously ill and 2 had a mild illness. Problems were encountered in diagnosing the disease, which presents initially with influenza-like symptoms, differing only in severity from influenza. However, petechiae and other manifestations of a bleeding tendency distinguished it from influenza in the later phase of the disease. Special investigations, especially those revealing leucopenia and thrombocytopenia, were critically important in early diagnosis. The dilemma of handling this highly contagious disease is that definite virological diagnosis is time-consuming and is conducted in only one high-security laboratory 1600 km distant. A further case was admitted 3 months later from a different locality and confirmed virologically but no secondary cases could be confirmed or traced.
