CENTRAL SUPPLY SERVICE DEPARTMENT: ARCHITECTONIC PATTERNS AND THE INSTRUMMENTAL PROCESSING

Abstract

SUMMARY: The Central Supply Service Department (CSSD) is bound of getting and dealing with materials known as filthy and contaminated, in order to make them sterilized in the end of the process (BRASIL, 1994). The Ministry of Health (2002) focusing on the building draft recommends a continuous flow without retroceding or even the contact between filthy and clean materials. The main goals of this research were: identify the CSSD architectonic patterns of largest hospitals in Goiânia along with analyze the relation of this patters with the material processing. This research covered the biggest and the average-sized Hospitals in Goiânia, after free consentient of the institutions and ethic committee approval. The research were made in 23 Hospitals, and all data were taken through the check list, after the test approval, and analyzed through Epi-info 60.4 program. The researched highlighted that 78.3% of the institutions have got CSSD linked to the Surgery Center, 97.3% have no specific areas to deal with each step of the articles processing, not to mention the relation among areas of different contamination levels. Besides 69% of the doors are made of wood which are not indicated due to cracks and saliences, 17.4% of CSSD do not have gratings in all areas and 34.8% do not have cleanse grating. 91.3% have no sink specifically for hand washing, This research clearly showed the disrespect to the Ministry of Health rules over physical structure of CSSD which can influence badly the articles processing in Hospitals, to the infections control in this institutions considering sterilizations the main policy against infection KEYWORDS: Architecture; Sterilization; Infection Control.