Coronary patient and the environment of intensive care unit: an approach of invasive procedures

• Autor(a) principal: Padilha, Katia Grillo
• Data de Publicação: 1987
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/reeusp/article/view/135822
• topic: Coronariopata; Unidades de terapia intensiva; Patient coronary; Intensive care units

This is a study about the influence of the quantity of invasive procedures to which the patient of an intensive care unit is submitted, and its relation to his perception of his environment. A hundreed patients with medical diagnosis of acute heart insufficiency, all of the same unit, have been interviewed. They were divided into 2 groups: Group A (submitted to more invasive procedures) and group B (submitted to a lesser number of invasive procedures). The statistical analysis showed that there was no difference between Group A and Group B in the quantity and nature of problems. The majority of the patients of the two groups felt mostly the problem of being inside a hospital, away from home. Only a minority described problems referring to sounds and images of their environment.