[Allergy to latex in surgical ward. Nurses' operational protocol].
The authors propose a nurses' operational protocol to follow when dealing with a patient who has an allergy to latex in a surgical Ward, amplifying this protocol to the entire patient care areas in a hospital to provide integral treatment for such allergy patients. In this first article, the authors analyze those products, instruments and material which may or may not, contain latex.
Hospital Mateu Orfila, Menorca.
Joana
J
Bagur Marquès
Bárbara
B
Duque González
D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D020315:Latex Hypersensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital