Clinical epidemiological profile and the main diagnostic labels nursing to hospitalized patients with stroke in a large hospital in the south of the Legal Amazônia region
Introduction: Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) is a disease
that leaves to the patient some important neurological deficits
interfering in maintaining the health and quality of life,
therefore it becomes essential identify the epidemiological
clinical profile of stroke patients with order to develop nursing
actions in a systematic way. Objective: The objectives were
identify and analyze the epidemiological clinical profile of
patients admitted with a stroke diagnosis in the Intensive
Care Unit (ICU) of a large hospital and propose nursing
diagnoses labels. Material and Methods: This is a
descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study with a
quantitative approach, the sample was 73 (100%) records of
patients with a diagnosis of stroke admitted to the ICU.
Results: The most of patients were female 52.1% (38) and
69% (51) of the total sample studied lived in the urban area.
The Ischemic Stroke achieved significant prevalence of 63%
(46) compared to 32.9% hemorrhagic stroke (24), and 4.1%
(3) of the patients were diagnosed with both types of stroke.
The analysis found that 87.7% (64) of the patients had
hypertension, 30.2% (22) of the patients had diabetes
mellitus. Clinical manifestations and consequences presented
by the most prevalent patients were 38.4% (28) for
hemiplegia, motor aphasia 31.5 % (23) and 21.6% (16)
developed memory loss. Conclusion: It was concluded that
most patients were female and lived in the urban area with a
mean age of 69.1 years. The main proposed nursing
diagnoses labels were impaired physical mobility, impaired
swallowing, imbalanced nutrition: less than body
requirements, and the profile found shows the importance of
the multidisciplinary team performance, enabling the creation
and implementation of strategies to improvements in care to
stroke patients
