Car emergency: availability of essential items in a hospital emergency norteriograndense
Abstract
It is a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative study that evaluates, by the standards of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC), the availability of the items of the Level I Emergency Cars (EC) of the largest emergency hospital in Rio Grande do Norte. Data were collected during the month of November 2010, the sample consists of 12 EC. All EC analyzed showed gaps in availability of essential items, being the greatest deficiencies related to materials intended for vascular access, circulation control and drugs aimed at treating the causes of cardiac arrest. It was felt institution, as well as a protocol, difficult routine check of the EC, the nurse assigned task.
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