O sofrimento do paciente na UTI : escutando a sua experi?ncia

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Main Author: Ribeiro, K?tia Regina Barros
Other Authors: CPF:00446114472
Format: Others
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte 2014
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Online Access:http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/14669
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Summary:Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:46:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 KatiaRBR.pdf: 328748 bytes, checksum: 9ccb7264eeae450fddca94907e4b0707 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-19 === In tertiary care, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is nowadays one of the most complex settings in providing care to critically ill patients and could make the difference in favor of life. Nevertheless, the stigma of death which pervades the imagination when the ICU is mentioned and the excessive importance placed on machines rather than on the human being end up by causing distress to some extent. As the purpose of this investigation is to understand the distress caused to a patient in an ICU, it has been grounded on the following question: What kind of distress does a patient go through during his/her experience in an ICU? This study has, therefore, an analytical and reflexive character embedded in a qualitative dimension of a phenomenological approach based on narratives. To this purpose, five patients were interviewed from November to December 2008. Out of the empirical material gathered from these narratives we were able to identify several factors that cause distress to ICU patients. Among them were: the certainty that they are critically ill and fear death, a closed room, too much lighting, a typical loneliness arising from being isolated from family members and dear ones, lack of communication with the professional staff, and noise; besides having to undergo therapeutic procedures. In summary, although the ICU is seen as a place of distress, in many aspects and in accord with this research, such distress can and should be relieved. On the other hand, being near to death leads them to a redefinition of life, said the patients. === Na aten??o terci?ria, ? a Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI), na atualidade, um dos cen?rios de maior complexidade no atendimento ao paciente grave, podendo fazer a diferen?a em favor da vida. No entanto, o estigma da morte que permeia o imagin?rio da popula??o - quando se fala em UTI -, a supervaloriza??o da m?quina, em detrimento do ser humano, terminam impondo algum sofrimento. Tendo como objetivo compreender o que sofre o paciente em uma UTI, esta investiga??o pautouse no seguinte questionamento: O que sofre o paciente durante sua experi?ncia na UTI? Trata-se, portanto, de um estudo de car?ter anal?tico e reflexivo, inserido numa dimens?o qualitativa de abordagem fenomenol?gica, com base em narrativas. Com este prop?sito, foram entrevistados cinco pacientes entre os meses de novembro e dezembro de 2008. Do material emp?rico, resultante das referidas narrativas, pudemos identificar v?rios fatores que geram sofrimento em paciente na UTI, dentre os quais destacamos: a certeza da gravidade e o medo da morte, o ambiente fechado, a ilumina??o em excesso, a solid?o caracterizada pelo distanciamento dos familiares e entes queridos, a falta de comunica??o com os pr?prios profissionais, o barulho, al?m da submiss?o aos procedimentos terap?uticos. Em s?ntese, mesmo reconhecendo a UTI como um espa?o que leva ao sofrimento, em muitos aspectos, conforme a pesquisa, esse sofrimento pode e deve ser atenuado. Por outro lado, a proximidade da morte conduz a uma redefini??o da vida, conforme expressaram os pacientes