Busca ativa contribui na identificação de eventos adversos e incidentes em unidade de terapia intensiva

Abstract

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.