Recomendações baseadas em evidências para o uso do cateter nasoenteral

Abstract

The nutritional status of a hospitalized patient is relevant as it can be decisive in his recovery. When treating hospitalized patients in intensive care units (ICUs) the importance of offering an adequate nutritional intake is a major factor to be particularly considered since the diseases are associated with a severe catabolic stress due to systemic inflammatory response. Most part of critically ill patients cannot eat orally by themselves and therefore nasoenteric tubes are widely used to supply nutrients to these patients. The aim of this study was to identify the interventions used during insertion, positioning, fixing and maintenance of nasoenteric tubes. The methodology used was the integrative review and to the selection of studies was performed a literature research on MeSH PubMed/MEDLINE using the descriptor gastrointestinal intubation. It was used the following inclusion criteria: published articles in full, between 2002 and 2012 in English, Portuguese and Spanish and research with humans and adults. The sample included 10 studies that had the inclusion criteria. In studies there are recommendations so that professionals in clinical practice are able to subsidize their performance on scientific evidence that already exist and to transform the daily care into research, broadening and deepening the scientific knowledge about the use of nasoenteric tubes in order to ensure patient safety and quality of care provided.