Transporte neonatal inter-hospitalar no estado do Ceará

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

25/11/2011

RESUMO

Introduction: Four million newborns die every year in the world during the first four weeks of their lives (Lawn, et al, 2008), the Brazilian infant mortality rate is similar to that of the world regarding a predominance in the early neo-natal phase. The transportation of sick patients is a challenge for the Public Health Care System. A previews transport clinical stabilization guarantees minor occurrences and fewer failures during the transportation. All the newborns that need hemodynamic support should be transferred to a neo-natal intensive care unit. This study could be useful to document the profile of newborns transferred and to evaluate the quality of this transformation. Objective: 1. To evaluate the neo-natal transportation between hospitals expressing the clinical occurrences in the transportation of this newborn to the neo-natal ICU in the state of Ceará, Brazil. 2.To evaluate the data contained in the current transfer protocol and suggest to adequate it for neo-natal transfer. Methods: A documental and quantitative study that was developed in a neonatal ICU in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. All of the newborns transported between January and July 2011 were included in the study. The variables studied were ventilator support, thermal support, clinical complications during transport, time and distance travelled by the ambulance, presence of a doctor, and the data presented in the current state transfer protocol records. The data was collected using the newborns medical records and charts. Results: Of the 59 transports evaluated the average gestational age was 34.5 weeks \, and the average weight was 2,340 grams. Premature birth (50.9%) was the most frequent isolated cause for transfer, of the newborns transferred, 52.5% were using intermittent mechanical ventilation, and hypothermia was found in 83.1% of newborns and the incubator for transport was present 76.3% of the time. Dehydration occurred in 37.3% of the transfers. The average transfer time was 98.08 minutes with an average distance of 111.39 kilometers; a doctor was present in 66.1% of the transports. When arriving at the neo-natal ICU, seven (11.9%) hospital staff teams reported clinical difficulties at the Maternal data were evaluated \, and the mothers age was reported in 45 (76.3%) of the reports, 12 (30%) of the mothers did not do pre-natal exams. Not one of the transfers reported inter occurrences of prenatal or reported the time of the amniorrhexis. Conclusion: The clinical conditions of the newborns transported in the state of Ceará are of severely low quality and a lack of access to information regarding the current transfer protocol.

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saude coletiva assistÊncia prÉ-natal - dissertaÇÕes mortalidade infantil - dissertaÇÕes neonatologia - dissertaÇÕes

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