Utilização das escalas para avaliação da dor em recém-nascidos internados em unidade de terapia intensiva

• Autor(a) principal: Scarton, Fernanda Nogueira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Larissa Alves, Santos, Maria Izabel dos, Rodrigues, Michel Almeida, Jesus, Tatiane Campache de, Sposito, Natália Pinheiro Braga
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/1482
• topic: Enfermagem; Dor; Unidade de terapia intensiva; Recém-nascido; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

Introduction: Pain is defined as a sensory and emotional experience that is associated with some tissue damage. Newborns are unable to self-report their pain, so the methods used to measure pain, such as pain scales, contribute to adequate assessment and humanized care. Objective: to describe the nursing team use of scales for pain assessment in newborns admitted to an intensive care unit. Method: Narrative-type literature’s review about the use of scales for pain assessment in newborn. The databases used were LILACS, MEDLINE AND BDENF, and there were selected articles published between the years 2015 to 2020. Results: Of the 10 articles analyzed, the majority (6; 60%) focused on the professionals' perception of pain in the newborn; the other 4 (40%) were studies carried out evaluating pain in the newborn. Six articles (60%) described the use of scales to assess pain, and among them the most used was the NIPS scale (Neonatal Infant Pain Scale), and of the remaining 4 articles, in 3 (30%) it was found that scales to assess pain were not used, while 1 (10%) described the use of a scale standardized by the institution. Conclusion: Although professionals recognize pain, there is still a large gap in the use of validated scales for more accurate pain measurement, which is reinforced by the fact that these instruments are not a reality in many institutions yet.