Prevalencia de lumbalgias en el personal de enfermeras y auxiliares de enfermería expuestos a manipulación manual de cargas (MMC) en el área de emergencias Covid-19 de un Hospital de la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

This article will determine the prevalence of low back pain in the staff of nurses and nursing assistants who perform the change of posture in ventilated patients, the risk of Manual Load Handling (MMC) in the Covid-19 emergency area will be evaluated. of a Hospital in the city of Quito, in which daily loads greater than 25 kg are manipulated when making changes of posture to patients with mechanical ventilation. Method: a cross-sectional descriptive analysis was carried out on 35 professionals between Nurses and Nursing Assistants, for which the Nordic Kuorinka Questionnaire was used, which identifies musculoskeletal symptoms, the level of risk due to manual manipulation of patients was evaluated by means of the MAPO methodology. Results: The results obtained show that low back pain is 83%, these discomforts have occurred in a year during the 7 days of the week, no medical control of these discomforts has been carried out, additional risk was evaluated using the MAPO method which yielded a value of 17.50 which he refers to as high risk. Conclusion: There is a high percentage of nurses and nursing assistants who report discomfort at the lumbar level due to the change in posture that they make to noncollaborating patients who remain on mechanical ventilation and the risk of patient manipulation is high.