ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the evolution of COVID-19 among Brazilian pregnant women, identifying sociodemographic and clinical predictors related to admission to ICU - Intensive Care Unit and death. Method: Cross-sectional, population-based study, carried out with a secondary database, based on data...
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify factors associated with acute kidney injury in patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Method: Retrospective cohort study conducted in an adult Intensive Care Unit with patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation from 2012 to 2021. The resear...
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the meaning attributed to nurses' clinical experience in a medical-surgical intensive care unit in Northern Cyprus. Method: The qualitative study was conducted in two medical-surgical intensive care units at a university hospital. Data were collected through in-depth int...
ABSTRACT Objective: Compare the nursing workload according to the condition of frailty in elderly people in an intensive care unit (ICU). Method: A cross-sectional study whose sample included patients aged ≥60 years who were hospitalized for ≥24 hours in the ICU of a university hospital in ...
ABSTRACT Objective: To check adherence to the Central Venous Catheter maintenance bundle in an Intensive Care Unit, after an educational intervention to the professionals who provide care to patients using this catheter. Method: Descriptive-exploratory study, carried out in two stages: stage 1 - educat...
ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the perception of the multiprofessional team about the quality of health care provided to patients in palliative care in the Intensive Care Unit. Method: qualitative study, anchored to Donabedian's theoretical framework, through semi-structured interviews with 35 profe...
Abstract Objective: To identify the prevalence of adverse events and the critically ill patient's need for care in an intensive care unit. Method: This is a cross-sectional study, carried out from January to March 2020. The adverse events investigated were pressure injury, accidental orotracheal extuba...
Abstract Objective: To assess the accuracy measurements for predisposing and precipitating Risk Factors for delirium in an adult Intensive Care Unit. Method: Cohort, prospective study with patients over 18 who had been hospitalized for over 24 hours and were able to communicate. The patients were asses...
ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the experiences of intensive care unit nurses who provide care to patients with COVID-19. Methods: Qualitative study grounded in Alfred Schütz's social phenomenology in which 20 nurses who work in intensive care units at public and private hospitals were interviewed b...
ABSTRACT Objective: To determine the nursing workload in intensive care units (ICUs) and the factors associated with the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). Method: An analytical cross-sectional study was carried out in three ICUs in Bucaramanga, Colombia, between February 2018 and February 2020. The nursi...
