ABSTRACT Objectives To determine the efficacy of a multicomponent nursing program to prevent delirium in critically ill patients. Methods Parallel controlled randomized clinical trial to prevent delirium in 81 critically ill patients: 41 in the control group and 40 in the intervention group (interventi...
ABSTRACT Aim To assess the incidence and factors associated with pressure wounds in patients of a Brazilian clinical and surgical Intensive Care Center (composed of three Intensive Care Units). Method Cohort monitored for clinical and therapeutic variables in an Intensive Care Center. Cox's Multiple Re...
ABSTRACT Objective: To know the social representations of comfort for patients' family members in palliative care in intensive care. Method: Descriptive, qualitative study, theoretical framework adopted was Social Representations. 30 family members of patients admitted to an intensive care unit in pall...
ABSTRACT Objective To understand the nurses' perception about the implementation of the nursing process in an Intensive Care Unit. Method Qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study. Data collection took place from February to March/2018, in an Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital in western Sa...
ABSTRACT Objective: To establish the prevalence of delirium and its subsyndrome in intensive care and to associate it with the use of sedative and analgesia, severity and mortality. Method: Carried out in two intensive care units of adult patients, this is a quantitative and transversal study, with 157...
Analgésicos/efectos adversos,
Cuidados Críticos/estadística & datos numéricos,
Delirio/epidemiología,
Hipnóticos y Sedantes/efectos adversos,
Analgésicos/administración & dosificación,
Distribución de Chi-Cuadrado,
Clonidina/administración & dosificación,
Clonidina/efectos adversos,
Estudios Transversales,
Delirio/inducido químicamente,
Fentanilo/administración & dosificación,
Fentanilo/efectos adversos,
Hipnóticos y Sedantes/administración & dosificación,
Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos,
Midazolam/administración & dosificación,
Midazolam/efectos adversos,
Midazolam/uso terapéutico,
Prevalencia,
Propofol/administración & dosificación,
Propofol/efectos adversos
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the incidence and to report the cases of falls in a cohort of critical adults. Method: A prospective cohort study, conducted in 2018 at an adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the south of Brazil. The patients were followed up from admission to discharge; observations were...
