Recorrência do uso de “furadeiras domésticas” como instrumental cirúrgico em hospitais que realizam cirurgias ortopédicas: relato de experiência

Introduction: The National Health Surveillance Agency, through Technical Note No. 40/2017, emphasizes that household drills used in orthopedic surgeries lack adequate safety mechanisms, as they do not allow for effective sterilization and do not ensure patient safety during surgical procedures. Objective: This study presented how a multidisciplinary team from the Health Surveillance addressed hospital establishments that were using domestic drills in orthopedic surgeries. Method: This is an account of the experiences of a team of health inspectors during inspections carried out in the first semester of 2023 at three hospitals in Ceará. For these inspections, instruments or guidelines based on Anvisa and the Ministry of Health regulations were used. Results: Inspectors found domestic drills in the sterilized material centers, which were exposed both in the disinfection rooms and in the storage and distribution rooms of the already processed instruments, available for immediate use in surgeries. Conclusions: This experience highlighted the need to train health inspection technicians in the state’s health services so that they could identify and differentiate the appropriate equipment used in surgeries.