Death of intensive care patient in the post-anesthesia care unit: a decontextualized experience
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https://doi.org/10.5327/Z1414-4425201800030004Keywords:
Sala de recuperação, Período de recuperação da anestesia, Enfermagem em sala de recuperação, Enfermagem perioperatória, Cuidados intensivos.Abstract
Objectives: To identify and characterize the profile of intensive care patients who progressed to death during their stay in the post-anesthesia
care unit (PACU), and list the difficulties faced by the nursing staff. Method: This is a retrospective study that uses the medical records and PACU record
books of five years (from July of 2012 to July of 2017) from a public hospital in Rio Grande do Sul as information source. Results: In the period under
study, 30 intensive care patients died in the PACU, most of them male, with a mean age of 50.97 years, who remained in bed, on average, for 14.8 hours,
and belonged to the neurosurgery specialty. The most frequent cause of death was cardiorespiratory arrest. Conclusion: The admission of intensive care
patients in the PACU requires adjustments in the physical and operational structure of the unit, staff in sufficient numbers and with appropriate technical
training to ensure safe and humanized assistance to intensive care patients, as well as other patients in the postoperative period.
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