Critical patient in an Intensive Care Unit: a review of the literature

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Cristina Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Outros Autores: Silva, Carla Viviane Nunes Soares, Miranda, Matilde Meire
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Reme (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/50795
• topic: Intensive Care Units; Patient Care; Patient Satisfaction; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Unidades de Terapia Intensiva; Atención al paciente; Pacientes iternados; Satisfacción del paciente; Evaluación de resultado (Atención de Salud); Centro de Terapia Intensiva; Assistência ao Paciente; Pacientes Internados; Satisfação do Paciente; Avaliação de Resultados (Cuidados de Saúde)

This study is a bibliographical review on critical patients in an intensive care unit. The idea was to examine the patient's point of view about the ICU. The period chosen was the last twenty years, that is, 1984 - 2003. The sources used were LILACS, BDENF, DEDALUS. This made it possible to build three categories after a careful reading of the abstracts and articles: Prejudice about the ICU, Living in the ICU, Positive and Negative Aspects, ICU - a learning, a return? These categories showed that the patients in ICUs talk about positive and negative aspects of the sector, focusing on the environmental stresses (premises, privacy), physical (pain), and psychological (rejection, depression, the fear of death and absence of the family), as well as differentiating factors for their recovery in the ICU (communication, faith and trust in the team). Another highlight is the nursing team that must review and rebuild its professional practice based on human care.