Perfil clínico-epidemiológico de pacientes em ventilação mecânica internado sem unidade de terapia intensiva / Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients on mechanical ventilation in the intensive careunit
estudo exploratório descritivo, com abordagem quantitativa, realizado em duas unidades de terapia intensiva, Fortaleza-Ceará, com 86 pacientes. Dados coletados a partir dos prontuários dos pacientes, de abril a julho de 2014, analisados por meio da estatística descritiva, expostos em figuras e tabelas.Estudo baseado na Resolução 466/12, aprovado com parecer no. 037/2011.
a descriptive exploratory study with a quantitative approach, performed in two intensive care units, Fortaleza-Ceará, with 86 patients. Data were collected from medical records of patients, from April to July 2014. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics, being exposed infigures and tables. The study was based on Resolution 466/12, approved with number 037/2011.
Results:
there was a predominance of males (62.8%) and age groupaged 60 years (41.86%). The mean age of patientswas 54.27 years. With regard to medical diagnostics, as evidenced was AIDS (32.55%), followed by lung (18.63)and respiratory failure (11.62%). Regarding the device used for patient connection to the mechanicalventilator, 82.6% used tracheal tube. More than half of the patients used vaso active drugs (54.65%), and noradrenaline the most used. Concerning the use of sedation and / or analgesia over half used the two classesof drugs in combination. The neurological evaluation was performed mostly by Ramsay scale, with an averagescore of 5.16 reported by patients.
Conclusions:
The study allowed the characterization of patients using VM,contributing to the quality of care.