Introduction: Fully implanted central venous catheters are fundamental in the treatment of cancer patients, providing greater safety to care and higher quality of life. Thus, the occlusion of this device is considered an event of great concern for health professionals involved in the care of this patient because it is most often linked to the suspension of therapy, exposure of the patient to a new procedure, ge...
Objetivo: analizar la evidencia disponible en la literatura sobre la dosis más baja de heparina necesaria para mantener la permeabilidad del catéter venoso central totalmente implantado en pacientes oncológicos adultos. Método: revisión integradora de la literatura realizada en las siguientes bases de datos: Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe en Ciencias de la Salud, Sciverse Scopus, Web of Science, Cumula...
Objective: to compare the knowledge of intensive care nurses about pressure injuries before and after an educational intervention. Methods: longitudinal study before and after intervention, conducted with nine intensive care nurses target of an online educational intervention on pressure injuries. Knowledge was investigated through an instrument with items on prevention, staging and evaluation of pressure injur...
This is a qualitative study whose aim was to describe the perception of an oncologic patient regarding the use of a device for continuous infusion of a chemotherapeutic agent. It was carried out with eight patients, through a semi-structured interview with this guiding question: “How do you feel about using a device for continuous infusion of a chemotherapeutic agent?”. Three categories emerged: avoiding hospit...
Health services has developed actions and programmes targeting the qualification of its work processes, in order to reduce, prevent and elimiinar quality deficiencies and which also meet the needs and expectations of users. Different evaluations of strategies in health practices has been adopted, allowing the identification of the conditions under which assists practices are performed. Hospital-acquired infecti...
The objective was to identify the knowledge of professionals regarding the surgical management of solid waste in health. This is a study of quantitative approach, descriptive cross-sectional KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice). The study was performed in a surgical ward at a public hospital in the city of Fortaleza, under the Ministry of Education. Data collection took place in the months of September and Oc...
This is an exploratory, descriptive study with a quantitative approach, which aimed at describing the use of central venous catheters for a short period in an intensive care unit regarding their insertion, maintenance, and removal, and at identifying the profile of patients who received the catheter in the period from June to December 2012, in a private hospital in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. Data were collected thr...
Estudo qualitativo cujo objetivo foi descrever a percepção do paciente oncológico em relação à utilização de um dispositivo para infusão contínua de quimioterápico, realizado com oito pacientes, por meio de entrevista semiestruturada com a questão norteadora: “Como você se sente utilizando dispositivo para infusão contínua de quimioterápico?”. Três categorias emergiram: evitando a hospitalização; desvendando o ...
This is a qualitative study whose aim was to describe the perception of an oncologic patient regarding the use of a device for continuous infusion of a chemotherapeutic agent. It was carried out with eight patients, through a semi-structured interview with this guiding question: “How do you feel about using a device for continuous infusion of a chemotherapeutic agent?”. Three categories emerged: avoiding hospit...