HANDLING OF PRETERM INFANTS IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

作者：Pereira Fabiola Lima^*; Nogueira de Goes Fernanda dos Santos; Monti Fonseca Luciana Mara; Silvan Scochi Carmen Gracinda; Castral Thaila Correa; Leite Adriana Moraes

来源：Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2013, 47(6): 1272-1278.

DOI：10.1590/S0080-623420130000600003

• Infant
• newborn Infant
• premature Intensive Care Units
• Neonatal Neonatal nursing

While hospitalized in neonatal units, pre-term infants undergo various manipulations and procedures that have negative health consequences. The aim of this study was to describe the manipulations that preterm infants are subjected to over a 24-hour period in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). An observational, descriptive, exploratory study was conducted with 20 preterm infants who were filmed continuously in a NICU over a 24-hour period from September 2008 to March 2009. Preterm infants were subjected to an average of 768 manipulations and 1341 procedures. The average duration of the manipulations over the 24-hour period was 2 hours and 26 minutes. Each manipulation included an average of 2.2 procedures, most occurring during the morning shift. Individual manipulations accounted for 65.6% of all manipulations, and most manipulations lasted less than a minute. The results of this study show that preterm infants in the NICU underwent an excessive number of manipulations over the 24-hour period evaluated.

• 出版日期2013-12