Prevalence of severe neurological damage and clinical profile of patients in Intensive Care Unit

• Autor(a) principal: Cabral, Thaynan Silveira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Busanello, Josefine, Cardoso, Leticia Silveira, Harter, Jenifer, Hummel, Julia Richter, Muniz, Ane Gabrielle
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/reufsm/article/view/65391
• topic: Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Health Profile; Intensive Care Units; Adult; Doenças do sistema nervoso; Manifestações neurológicas; Perfil de saúde; Unidade de terapia intensiva; Adulto; Doenças do Sistema Nervoso; Manifestações Neurológicas; Perfil de Saúde; Unidade de Terapia Intensiva; Adulto

Objective: to identify the prevalent neurological damage in patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit and their relationship with social and clinical characteristics, care, and clinical outcome. Method: cross-sectional study with analysis of 83 medical records of patients with neurological damage and hospitalized in the period from 2016 to 2018. Results: predominance of Hemorrhagic Stroke (55.4%). Traumatic Brain Injury affected only men (16.9%). Systemic Arterial Hypertension was the main comorbidity evidenced (51.8%). Altered muscle strength was the main sign of severe neurological damage (36.2%). Analgesia prevailed among intensive care dedicated to patients with severe neurological damage (95.1%). Death as clinical outcome predominated (85.6%). Conclusion: Hemorrhagic stroke predominates, especially in women. Analgesia is the main care evidenced, and the mortality rate was higher than the rates found in the literature.