Eletrocirurgia: evidências para o cuidado de enfermagem / Electrosurgery: evidence for the nursing care
AUTOR(ES)
Maria de Fátima Paiva Brito
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
The electrosurgery is a technology largely used in surgical rooms. The perioperative period presents risks to patients from the moment they enter the surgical unit until they return to the unit of origin, and the electrosurgery constitutes one of these risks. The lack of scientific production related to the use of this technology motivated us to elaborate this study. The implementation of evidence-based practice has become fundamental to the nurses decision process and was chosen as the theoreticalmethodological referential adopted. The present study is a literature integrative review that aimed to seek and evaluate the evidences available in the literature on the scientific knowledge produced on nursing care related to the use of electrosurgery in the period intra-surgical. For the selection of articles, the databases Medline e CINAHL were used and 21 scientific articles composed the sample, which were categorized in the themes: complications caused by the electrosurgery (five articles); complications caused by the use of high frequency electrosurgery (four articles); complications caused by the use of electrosurgery, other electrical equipments and anti-septic agents (three articles); nurses knowledge about the electrosurgery unit (two articles) and practical recommendations for the use of the electrosurgery (seven articles). The articles published in the area of nursing approached, in their majority, practical recommendations for the use of electrosurgery (seven articles); the case reports (two articles) described burns caused by the use of electrosurgery with high frequency electric current and two articles evaluated nurses general knowledge on electrosurgery. In the medical area all the articles were case reports (seven articles), which described the complications (burns) that occurred due to the use of this technology and the publications considered from other areas (three articles) approached burns that occurred in dispersive electron and in alternative site. The results of this study indicate that it is imperative for the perioperative nurse the technical-scientific knowledge about the use of the electrosurgery. The evidence found supports implementation of policies and procedures that assure the safety of the patient minimizing potential risks in the use of this technology.
ASSUNTO(S)
evidence-based practice electrosurgery prática baseada em evidências eletrocirurgia cuidados de enfermagem nursing care
