Checklist for the intrahospital transport of patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

Checklists represent a simple tool incorporating barriers for protecting patient safety. The objective was to develop a script for patient evaluation for the intrahospital transport of patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in the Triângulo Mineiro region, based on two strategies. The first: a descriptive, prospective and quantitative study; the second: integrative research, undertaken in four databases. It was ascertained that the incidents are related to breakdowns and problems related to poor functioning in equipment and devices, with adverse events being frequent involving variation in blood pressure, agitation, drops in peripheral arterial saturation and tachycardia. Emphasis is also placed on the need to verify the effectiveness of the present script for patient evaluation for intrahospital transport in relation to patient safety, and its level of practicality through its use in the varying hospital spaces, such that the same may become a checklist.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Silva,Renata da, Amante,Lúcia Nazareth
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós Graduação em Enfermagem 2015
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-07072015000200539
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