The knowledge of nursing professionals regarding cardiorespiratory arrest in emergency

• Autor(a) principal: Farias, Isabela Sant'Anna de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Pinto, Leticia Velozo Domingos, Costa, Raquel dos Santos da, Chagas, Tamíris Alves, Serra, Júlia Lião, Souza, Maria Eduarda Cardoso Rabelo de, Araujo, Raiane Lopes, Araújo, Rebeca da Silva, Santos, Allan Bruno Alves de Sousa, Zandim, Jessica Cristina Lins, Meira, Mariana de Jesus, Portugal, Rafaela de Jesus, Teixeira, Leandro Barbosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/22373
• topic: Conocimiento; Enfermería; Enfermería de emergencia; Emergencia; Paro cardíaco.; Knowledge; Nursing; Emergency nursing; Emergency; Cardiac arrest.; Conhecimento; Enfermagem; Enfermagem em emergência; Emergência; Parada cardíaca.

Objective: Discuss the importance of knowledge of nursing professionals facing a situation of cardiac arrest in the emergency department. Methods: This is an integrative literature review, carried out in the Virtual Health Library database, using the descriptors "Knowledge", "Nursing", "Emergency Nursing", "Emergency" and "Heart Arrest" combined with each other through of the Boolean operators "AND" and "OR", covering studies published in the last 5 years (2016-2021), available in full and that answered the guiding question: How the knowledge of nursing professionals implies in their performance in relation to cardiopulmonary arrest in Emergency? Results: Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a final sample of 18 articles was obtained, of which 21.6% corresponding to descriptive study articles, with a predominance of studies published in 2017. Conclusion: It is noticed that constant updates for these professionals are important, contributing to the recognition of the main signs and symptoms of a CPA, performing necessary interventions and qualified maneuvers without interfering with the patient's health. These types of updates can occur through ongoing education projects aimed at the development, autonomy and appreciation of nurses.