Nursing interventions for patients with intracranial hypertension: Integrative literature review

• Autor(a) principal: de Almeida, Carolina Marques [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Pollo, Camila Fernandes [UNESP], Meneguin, Silmara [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.5294/aqui.2019.19.4.9; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/228750
• topic: Hemodynamic monitoring; Intracranial pressure; Nursing; Nursing care; Nursing care management

Objective: the study sought to identify, in national and international publications, the principal Nursing interventions aimed at patients with intracranial hypertension. Materials and Method: integrative literature review with search in LILACS, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cinahal, and Google Scholar databases, from 2013 to 2018. Results: the sample was comprised of seven articles fulfilling the inclusion criteria. Two thematic categories were established for the Nursing interventions aimed at patients with intracranial hypertension: cognitive skills and clinical reasoning, necessary to control neuro-physiological parameters and prevent intracranial hypertension, and evidence-based practices to improve care for neuro-critical patients. Conclusions: intracranial hypertension is an event of great clinical impact, whose complications can be minimized and control through specific Nursing interventions that encompass control of neuro-physiological and hemodynamic parameters and prevention of increased intracranial pressure related with the performance of procedures by the Nursing staff.