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Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo
On-line version ISSN 1989-7790Print version ISSN 0465-546X
Abstract
URIBE LLOPIS, Paz et al. Hacia un hospital sin látex. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2008, vol.54, n.212, pp.99-108. ISSN 1989-7790.
The main objective of this work is to describe the steps that hand been given in a public hospital in order to go «Towards a hospital without latex». The increasing of allergy illness is the reason because of that; we have to make a number of actions in a hospitable policy, with the purpose of decreasing the latex content in the hospital. With theses actions we want to get a latex allergy decreasing in the workers avoiding in the sensitive patients the possible allergy reactions when they are performed an operation.
Keywords : Latex allergy; Hospital; Procedure of actions; planned operation; Workers; Patients.