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- Title
Eventos adversos durante transporte intra-hospitalar de pacientes críticos em hospital de grande porte.
- Authors
Cordeiro Veiga, Viviane; Fioravanti Postalli, Natalia; Kawagoe Alvarisa, Thais; Pereira Travassos, Phillipe; da Silva Vale, Raquel Telles; de Oliveira, Cleyton Zanardo; Ordinola Rojas, Salomón Soriano
- Abstract
Objective: To describe the incidence of clinical and nonclinical events during intrahospital transport of critically ill patients and to analyze the associated risk factors. Methods: Cohort study with retrospective data collected from October 2016 to October 2017. All cases of intrahospital transport for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in a large hospital with six adult intensive care units were analyzed, and the adverse events and related risk factors were evaluated. Results: During the study period, 1,559 intrahospital transports were performed with 1,348 patients, with a mean age of 66 ± 17 years and a mean transport time of 43 ± 34 minutes. During transport, 19.8% of the patients were using vasoactive drugs; 13.7% were under sedation; and 10.6% were under mechanical ventilation. Clinical events occurred in 117 transports (7.5%), and non-clinical events occurred in 125 (8.0%) transports. Communication failures were prevalent; however, the multivariate analysis showed that the use of sedatives, noradrenaline and nitroprusside and a transport time greater than 36.5 minutes were associated with adverse clinical events. The use of dobutamine and a transport time greater than 36.5 minutes were associated with non-clinical events. At the end of transport, 98.1% of the patients presented unchanged clinical conditions compared with baseline. Conclusion: Intrahospital transport is related to a high incidence of adverse events, and transport time and the use of sedatives and vasoactive drugs were related to these events.
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2019, Vol 31, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
0103-507X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5935/0103-507X.20190003