INDIVIDUALS GOERS OF ICU IN A CITY INSIDE THE BRAZIL

What is it about?

The Intensive Care Unit is, by definition, an intensive treatment environment with restricted and controlled flow of people, superficially uses the potential of family members in favor of their clients, sometimes because they do not recognize the family as a therapeutic instrument of intensive treatment. With this, neglecting the health of the family, which also needs special care, intensive care.The study on these individuals revealed some peculiarities, making possible after analysis the characterization of the profile. It is composed mostly of females, at the end of the reproductive age between 41 and 50 years of age, with high school, of the household, with a monthly income of 2 minimum wages, with evangelical religion /, resident in the municipality and state itself, visiting an ICU for the first time.

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Why is it important?

Family members, no matter how they appear, isolated or little involved in the hospital routines, are pivots of any established treatment for their fellows. The evolution in the care process throughout history, by innovative theories and methods, did not alter the predominance of the femininity of the family care to the hospitalized patient, regardless of gender or length of stay.

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