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Medical device-related pressure injury prevention in critically ill patients: nursing care
Sabrina Guterres da Silva Galetto1, Eliane Regina Pereira do Nascimento1, Patrícia Madalena Vieira Hermida1
1Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Objectives:
to know the care implemented by the nursing team to prevent medical device-related pressure injuries in critically ill patients.
Methods:
this is a qualitative research conducted with 15 nursing professionals from Intensive Care Unit. Sampling was carried out by theoretical saturation. For data analysis, the Discourse of the Collective Subject technique was used.
Results:
six speeches emerged, whose central ideas were interventions for medical device-related pressure injury prevention: care in fixation; frequent repositioning; protection and padding of body areas in contact; preferences for flexible materials, when available; attention of professionals so that they do not comer under patients; early assessment and removal, when clinically possible.
Final Considerations:
nursing care was directed mainly to respiratory devices, catheters in general and monitoring equipment, indicating that professionals have the knowledge to provide safe assistance consistent with the literature.
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