Estrategias de prevención de úlceras por presión en pacientes encamados en el área de cuidados intensivos del hospital Manuel Y Monteros Valdivieso IESS-Loja de noviembre 2017 a enero 2018

Abstract

Nowadays, A social problem which affects safety and health’s society is the pressure sore; it affects life quality. For that reason, the following research analyzed the prevention strategies of the pressure sore in intensive care bedridden patients at Manuel Y Monteros hospital. Its main purpose was to determine the compliment of strategies successfully through of the descriptive study and cross section where 22 professional nurses and 30 admitted patients to the UCI participated. The Braden scale and semi-structured survey were applied. The following results were obtained, the 80% pf the personal achieve with the prevention strategies, the 20% patients where diagnosticated with pressure sore, the 50% of second place and the 67% in the sacral zone. As a result, the pressure sore still being a problem for the admitted patients in UCI as a consequence of their exposition in intrinsic/extrinsic risk factors. Hence the nurses staff has to perform interventions and care that constitute an indicator of quality of care.