A influência da percepção da morte na recuperação dos pacientes em unidade de terapia intensiva.

Abstract

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a sector where it provides expert assistance to qualified patients and serious, but with potential for recovery. So it is a sector characterized by constant therapeutic complications and deaths, which make the environment complex and generated stress, anxiety, fear, and other feelings. Based on these data, it is assumed that ICU patients have a strong perception in relation to death, by associating this unit at the end of life, and the fact of the existence of factors inherent in the ICU that generate a negative influence on patient recovery prolonging hospitalization. Thus, this study aims broadly: grasp the perception of death in patients in the Intensive Care Unit. This is an exploratory and descriptive, qualitative approach, developed in 07 patients in the ICU of the University Hospital Alcides Carneiro in Campina Grande, Paraíba, from a semi-structured interview. Data collection was conducted in January and February of 2013, after approval by the Ethics in Research, under number 180 461, and following ethical principles established by Resolution No. 196/96. After data collection, the lines were categorized by the technique of content analysis proposed by Bardin (2009) and analyzed in the light of the theoretical. The results were grouped into four categories: The face of the predominant ICU: death is its synonym; strength of negative thinking, the severity of other inpatients, the frequent deaths, the fear of death, intensive care offered, the look of the Professional : aggravating factors to the perception of death: The power of positive thinking, the presence of faith, the intensive care provided by professionals, humanization in, agility and equipment: mitigating factors to the perception of death, and the feeling of impending doom in ICU: perception of triggering factors delongam patient recovery. Therefore, realize the importance of this study, as it may serve as an incentive for professionals intensivist providing assistance more humanized, and help in demystifying the ICU as a synonym for death, promoting faster recovery of patients.