Resultados: 13

Instrumentos para la evaluación del riesgo de lesiones por presión en adultos en estado crítico: scoping review

Objetivo: mapear los instrumentos para la evaluación del riesgo de lesiones por presión en adultos en situación crítica en una unidad de terapia intensiva; identificar los indicadores de desempeño de los instrumentos y la apreciación de los usuarios con respecto al uso/limitaciones de los instrumen...

Lesões de pele por Equipamentos de Proteção Individual e medidas preventivas no contexto da COVID-19: revisão integrativa

Resumo Objetivo identificar as evidências científicas sobre os tipos de lesões de pele ocasionadas pelo uso de Equipamento de Proteção Individual em profissionais de saúde durante a pandemia da COVID-19 e verificar as medidas de prevenção recomendadas. Método trata-se de uma revisão integrati...

Prone positioning as an emerging tool in the care provided to patients infected with COVID-19: a scoping review

Objective: to describe scientific evidence regarding the use of prone positioning in the care provided to patients with acute respiratory failure caused by COVID-19. Method: this is a scoping review. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews was used to support the writing of this study. The search was condu...

Application of the educational method of realistic simulation in the treatment of pressure injuries

Objective: to evaluate the use of realistic simulation as a strategy to promote teaching about pressure injuries. Method: This is a quasi-experimental study. A modified and translated version of the Pieper Pressure Ulcer knowledge test was applied. Kappa statistical analysis was used to assess the pro...

Risk assessment for perioperative pressure injuries

ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate and classify patients according to the Risk Assessment Scale for Perioperative Pressure Injuries; verify the association between sociodemographic and clinical variables and the risk score; and identify the occurrence of pressure injuries due to surgical positioning. Met...

Scale of adverse events associated to nursing practices: a psychometric study in Portuguese hospital context

Objective to contribute to the validation study of the Scale of Adverse Events associated with Nursing Practices in the hospital context. Method cross-sectional study, in public hospital units, in the central and northern regions of Portugal. The exploratory factor analysis of the Scale of Adverse Eve...

Influence of support surfaces on the distribution of body interface pressure in surgical positioning

Abstract Objective: to evaluate the interface pressure (IP) of support surfaces (SSs) on bony prominences. Method: a quasi-experimental study with repeated measures on each SS. Twenty healthy adult volunteers participated in the study. The participants were placed in the supine position on a standard o...

Instruments for the care of pressure injury in pediatrics and hebiatrics: an integrative review of the literature

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify existing instruments in the scientific literature about the care of pressure injuries in pediatric and hebiatric patients. Method: an integrative review that selected 32 articles from the PubMed/Medline, LILACS, Scopus and CINAHL databases using the descriptors pressure ...

The Nursing Diagnosis of risk for pressure ulcer: content validation

Abstract Objective: to validate the content of the new nursing diagnosis, termed risk for pressure ulcer. Method: the content validation with a sample made up of 24 nurses who were specialists in skin care from six different hospitals in the South and Southeast of Brazil. Data collection took place e...

Experimental study with nursing staff related to the knowledge about pressure ulcers

ABSTRACT Objective: to compare the scores of knowledge in teams participating or not participating in educational interventions about pressure ulcers. Method: a quantitative study with experimental design. Data were collected through a validated questionnaire. The study included 71 individuals, includi...