Resultados: 13

Avaliação microbiológica de superfícies em terapia intensiva: reflexões sobre as estratégias preventivas de infecções nosocomiais

Objetivo: determinar o perfil microbiológico de bactérias isoladas e identificadas nos leitos e bombas infusoras na unidade de terapia intensiva de um hospital universitário do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Método: foram coletadas nove amostras de grades das camas dos pacientes e oito de teclados de bomb...

Hemolysis risk after packed red blood cells transfusion with infusion pumps

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the hemolysis biomarkers of packed red blood cells transfused by two different linear peristaltic infusion pumps at two infusion rates. Method: An experimental and randomized study was designed simulating the clinical practice of transfusion. Two linear peristaltic infus...

Infusion pumps and red blood cell damage in transfusion therapy: an integrative revision of the academic literature

ABSTRACT Objectives: to obtain information from scientific literature concerning infusion pumps used in administering erythrocyte (red blood cells) and to evaluate the implications in the practical use of this equipment by nurses when conducting transfusions. Method: an integrative revision of the fo...