Nursing care for bed bath in patients with COVID-19: an integrative review.

Cristina Tavares de Aguiar Avilar,Patrícia Rezende do Prado,Cawana da Silva do Nascimento,Ítala Maria Araújo Andrade,Thatiana Lameira Maciel Amaral,Larissa Vanessa Machado Viana

doi:10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0704

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https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0704

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Abstract

to identify the main nursing care procedures for performing bed bath in patients with COVID-19. an integrative literature review. Five stages were followed for this research: research question elaboration (identification of the problem), search of studies in literature, study assessment, data analysis, and presentation of review. To search for primary studies, the VHL and SciELO databases were selected. initially, 55 publications were found. After reading and analyzing the abstracts, the sample consisted of 15 studies. patients with the new coronavirus have specific care to perform a bed bath, oral, intimate and skin hygiene. It is important that professionals use adequate personal protective equipment, perform humanized care, continuously observing patients' vital signs to avoid occurrence of adverse events, promoting patient safety.

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The new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SRAG), was discovered on December 31, 2019, after epidemic cases in Wuhan, China
Patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) affected by COVID-19 who present ARDS
ASSOBRAFIR requires careful indication of this positioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in improvised ICUs, with reduced and untrained staff. They reinforce the need for training of physiotherapists and multidisciplinary teams working in ICUs, so that they can safely use this resource

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The new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SRAG), was discovered on December 31, 2019, after epidemic cases in Wuhan, China. Known as COVID-19, most patients, 80%, are asymptomatic, 20% of cases may require hospital care, due to respiratory difficulties. In a study of different types of clinical samples, the biodistribution of 2019-nCoV in different tissues of hospitalized patients was investigated, and the virus was detected in stools, implying that COVID-19 can be transmitted via the fecal route(2-3). Patients with high dependence are often diagnosed by the nursing diagnoses Self Care Deficit: Bathing and Self Care Deficit: Hygiene. It seems that the degree of dependence for care related to body hygiene is directly related to the severity of patients(4)

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