Prevalência e incidência de úlcera por pressão em uma unidade de terapia intensiva

• Autor(a) principal: Palhares, Valéria de Castilho [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Palhares Neto, Aristides Augusto [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.revista.ufpe.br/revistaenfermagem/index.php/revista/article/view/5039; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140740
• topic: Pressure ulcer; Nursing; Intensive care unit; Úlcera de presión; Enfermería; Unidad de cuidados intensivos; Úlcera por pressão; Enfermagem; Unidade de terapia intensiva

Objective: estimating the incidence and prevalence of pressure ulcers (PU). Method: a prospective study conducted with 332 patients in ICU within one year. Data collection was used to recording annotation of skin integrity and was calculated the prevalence and incidence of PU. The research project was approved by the Ethics Committee in Research, Protocol 3354-2009. Results: from the patients studied, 92 % were at risk for PU, 12% developed PU at admission, and 10% had PU on admission. From the PU identified on admission 20 were stage I, 29 stage II, 2 stage III and 7 stage IV. From the PU identified during hospitalization, 11 were in stage I, 39 in stage II and in stage III 4. The incidence and the prevalence of PU were of 13,95% and 17,79% respectively. Conclusion: recognizing the incidence and prevalence of PU contributed to quality of care.