Investigation of Preventive Practices for Surgical Fires and Burns in the Operating Rooms of Four Tertiary Hospitals Dilek Aygin1 , Esra Usta2 , Havva Bozdemir3 , Nursen Uçar4

Abstract

Aim: The present study aimed to investigate surgical fires as well as the precautions taken in theprevention of fire in four training and research hospitals in the Western Black Sea Region and EasternMarmara Region.Method: The descriptive study was conducted with the participation of 148 nurses working in operatingrooms. A questionnaire structured by the researchers was used as the data collection tool. The datawas analyzed using the statistical program SPSS 21.0. Statistical comparisons were made using KruskallWallis, Mann Whitney U, Student t, Pearson Correlation and Chi-square tests. The confidence interval waspredetermined to be