Abstract

CERRATO SAEZ, Patricia. Variability of nursing clinical practice for Totally Implanted Vascular Access Devices after a bibliographic review of questionnaires and surveys about their management. Ene. [online]. 2020, vol.14, n.2, 14211.  Epub Jan 25, 2021. ISSN 1988-348X.

Currently, there is an important variability on totally implanted vascular access devices care that can be explained by diverse factors.

The aim of this review is to describe nursing variability cares by comparing various articles published both in Web of Science and Scopus. In those studies, the authors have used different methods such as questionnaires and surveys so as to analyze and report the aforementioned cares, and also to describe the validation processes of the devices under study.

Thus, variability of nursing clinical practice for totally implanted vascular access devices has been verified, fundamentally, the protection barriers and the washing and blocking techniques. Nevertheless, there is unanimity regarding the kind of needle used to access the device.

Regarding the studies reviewed, despite being high quality publications, most of them did not meet the expected standars for a state-of-the-art survey validation. Particularly due to the insufficient ítems assessed.

Keywords : catheters indwelling; vascular access devices; surveys and questionnaires.

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