Objective: The objective is to correlate the nursing diagnoses of the domain Safety/Protection of\nNANDA-I in critically ill patients with sociodemographic and clinical data. Method: A cross-sectional\nstudy with 86 individuals was conducted, from October 2013 to May 2014 in the Intensive Care Unit\nof a university hospital in northeastern Brazil, through a formal interview and physical examination.\nResults: It was possible to identify a total of 20 significant statistical associations, and 15 were clinically\njustified by the literature, namely: risk for aspiration and reason for admission; impaired dentition\nand age; risk for peripheral neurovascular dysfunction and sex and comorbidity; skin integrity\nand comorbidity; risk for impaired skin integrity and gender and reason for admission; impaired\ntissue integrity and gender and reason for admission; risk for perioperative positioning injury and\nreason for admission; risk for thermal injury and age and comorbidity; delayed surgical recovery\nand reason for admission; risk for poisoning and years of schooling; and risk for imbalanced body\ntemperature and age. Conclusions: By understanding the relationship between customers� answers\nand the sociodemographic and clinical profile, positive health outcomes can be achieved in particular\nin the prevention of risks facing vulnerability characteristics, providing greater safety and protection\nfor the critical customer.
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