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Enfermería Global
ISSN 1695-6141
DOS SANTOS, Reginaldo Passoni; DA LUZ, Mayara Aparecida Passaura; BORGES, Fabieli CARVALHO, Ariana Rodrigues Silva. Active search contributes to the identification of adverse events and incidents in intensive care unit. []. , 16, 48, pp.465-498. 14--2020. ISSN 1695-6141. https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/eglobal.16.4.269601.
Objectives
Analyze adverse events and incidentes in the intensive care unit of a university hospital and check which portion of the active search contribuition in identifying occurrences.
Methods
Retrospective study, documentary of nature quantitative.
Results
It was recorded 253 events/incidents, of which 239 (94%) were recorded by active search. Injury pressure was the incident more frequently (n=88; 34.78%) and affected more patients (n= 54; 48.9%). It was found that 136 (53.8%) events/incidents were mild.
Conclusion
The active search has proved to be a management strategy that corroborated so substantially to the identification of risk situations in the intensive care unit.
: Patient safety; Quality of health care; Intensive care units; Nursing.
