Abstract
Recently, the care of patients with Latex- allergy (LA) has become one of the challenges to operation room staffers of many hospitals. To cope with the situation, an LA prevention team was established in our hospital in January 2010.
[Method] It's main tasks include: ①Making a list of all medical materials including latex; ②Accumulation of all allergic information for preoperative patients; ③Making the medical carts laden with latex-free materials; and ④Making the manual for LA prevention.
[Results] ①The components of medical supplies have been clarified; ②Preventive measures could be taken on the basis of the information of LA; ③The latex-frec wagons have been prepared for emergency situations; and ④A better understanding of LA has been brought about by the manual.
[Future problems] The safety of patients in our operating room has been secured, but not in many other parts of the wards. This problems should be resolved by the whole hospital with our anti-LA team playing a leading role.
