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Victoria Tiyoko Moraes Sakamoto1, Tainara Wink Vieira1, Karin Viegas1
1Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Objectives:
to map the available evidence about nursing care aimed at adult patients using external ventricular drain.
Methods:
this is a review using the scoping review method.
Results:
Initially, 965 studies were identified and, after the eligibility criteria, a sample of 54 publications was obtained. Each of them was assessed according to GRADE, resulting in three studies with high quality; 14 with moderate quality; 32 with low quality; and five with very low quality. It was highlighted 20 nursing care subdivided into nine categories, namely: drainage system; bed positioning and mobilization; catheter care; monitoring of intracranial pressure; and medication administration.
Conclusions:
the scoping review made it possible to identify the main nursing care directed to adult patients undergoing placement of external ventricular drain from the evidence available to date.
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