Lesões por pressão em terapia intensiva: medidas preventivas baseadas em evidências

Abstract

Patient safety and adverse events in healthcare systems are interlinked and increasingly explored worldwide. Among the six basic protocols for patient safety, pressure injuries have stood out, either due to underreporting, high incidence or difficulty in handling because in some cases it is considered an inevitable event in view of the patient's clinical conditions. Pressure injuries are injuries that can occur at any location on a person's skin, being classified according to the extent of tissue involvement, topography or triggering factor. With the advent of technology, patients, especially critically ill patients in intensive care, are submitted to numerous therapeuticdiagnostic procedures, the use of high technology and increasingly specialized teams. However, advances do not reduce the harmful events inherent or not that can occur in these systems. Thus, the present study aimed to prepare a manual and propose a training course aimed at instructing nurses working in the ICUs at HC-UFTM on preventive measures based on scientific evidence of pressure injuries. Through bibliographic research and text-image interaction strategies, a multimodal textual genre, a manual of preventive measures based on scientific evidence of pressure injuries was prepared and a training course was proposed to attend HC-UFTM. The technical products developed in this work will be extremely important to reduce the prevalence of pressure injuries in patients admitted to intensive care units at HCUFTM.