2014 Volume 29 Issue 3 Pages 196-202
The present study investigated the risk of blood exposure to the eyes of circulating nurses, and considered the relevance of circulating nursing services, surgery information, and perception of blood splashes of nurses. Blood exposure was detected by the luminol test. The sheets of 143 eye guards were collected. Blood was detected on 41 sheets (28.7%). The test of differences found a significant difference in the presence or absence of blood exposure with the following parameters: operative time, total blood loss, amount of bleeding from the gauze, and gauze count. Logistic regression analysis showed total blood loss and gauze count as risk factors for blood exposure. The gauze count increases the risk of blood exposure around the eye of the circulating nurses in operating room. Therefore, we need to protect around the eyes at all times, and to consider the process of gauze count.
