Prevalence of severe neurological damage and clinical profile of patients in Intensive Care Unit

• Main Authors: Thaynan Silveira Cabral (Author), Josefine Busanello (Author), Leticia Silveira Cardoso (Author), Jenifer Harter (Author), Julia Richter Hummel (Author), Ane Gabrielle Muniz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 2179-7692; 10.5902/2179769265391
• Keywords: doenças do sistema nervoso; manifestações neurológicas; perfil de saúde; unidade de terapia intensiva; adulto; Medicine; R; Nursing; RT1-120
• Source: Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Vol 11, Iss 0, Pp e72-e72 (2021)

Objective: to identify the prevalent neurological damage in patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit and their relationship with social and clinical characteristics, care, and clinical outcome. Method: cross-sectional study with analysis of 83 medical records of patients with neurological damage and hospitalized in the period from 2016 to 2018. Results: predominance of Hemorrhagic Stroke (55.4%). Traumatic Brain Injury affected only men (16.9%). Systemic Arterial Hypertension was the main comorbidity evidenced (51.8%). Altered muscle strength was the main sign of severe neurological damage (36.2%). Analgesia prevailed among intensive care dedicated to patients with severe neurological damage (95.1%). Death as clinical outcome predominated (85.6%). Conclusion: Hemorrhagic stroke predominates, especially in women. Analgesia is the main care evidenced, and the mortality rate was higher than the rates found in the literature.