Promotion of health in intensive care: nursing intervention to client with TVP. review of nursing literature

Abstract

The present study, that relates a revision nursing professional bibliography, begun of the knowledge lack about the existent literature approaching the promotion of the health in intensive cares, in the nursing attention to the client with Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). It was used as methodology the exploratory research with bibliographical rising for manual and computerized search from 1997’s to 2002’s. TVP is a frequent complication of the fallen ill clients, as in the case of the interned in the Unit of Intensive Treatment (UCI). With silent beginning and fatal complications, the study provided the knowledge of the importance of the nursing attention in all the apprenticeships of DVP since the prophylaxis to the anticoagulant therapy. So much the Brazilian production, as the international converges the relevance of the nursing attention in the promotion of these clients' health, poiting preventives care, for TVP or its complications and of its therapeutics.