Patient or UTI - Psychological aspects

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This paper aims to analyze the psychological aspect of the patient hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as well as the importance of the psychologist in the care of this patient. Hospital psychology is the playing field more develops in psychology. Among the many professional development opportunities, it is certainly meet the greatest prospects. Written according to chapters published in other author's works, this book deals with current trends in health psychology and its significant advances in conjunction with other health areas. This study, among others, is to expand and enrich the debates around this fascinating area.

Trauma added by all disease and hospital environment can be mitigated through psychological treatment. A growing number of hospitals are becoming aware of the importance of maintaining professional psychology area for the care of their patients, especially in situations involving diagnosis of diseases such as cancer, AIDS, stay in the Intensive Care Unit cases of amputation of limbs.

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Literary review
History of the intensive care unit and its objectives
Physical and environmental factors
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[...] The visiting hours at the time were from 16:00 to 16:30 and 20:00 to 20:30, and allowed the entry of two people per patient. REFERENCES BOCK, A., In Defense of historical perspective in psychology. Paper presented by Dr. Ana Mercy Bahia Bock at PUC-MG on 13/05/02. CAMPOS, T.C.P. Hospital Psychology: the psychology practice in hospitals. Sao Paulo, E.P.U CECCARELLI, PR, "oedipal Settings of contemporaneity: thoughts on the new forms of membership," in Journal of Psychoanalysis Pulsional, Sao Paulo, year XV 88-98, mar FERRAZ, MB Quality of life: concept and a brief history. Young Physician, 1998; 219 -22. [...]

[...] To Bendixen and Kinney (1979) the possibility of patient care had multiple factors, such as public interest, availability of funds to support an inherently expensive therapeutic form, special features of people, technology and constant clinical application. Among these features are the centralization of patients, sometimes separated by areas (trauma, burns, neonatal, etc.); advances in medical knowledge on the airways, resuscitation technique, endotracheal intubation, artificial ventilation, oxygenation, cardiac defibrillation, the circulatory support with drugs and pacemakers, etc. A historical curiosity, for example, was: John Hunter recommended bellows to pump air for resuscitation. [...]

[...] Rio de Janeiro: Imago; 1969. p. 89-169. Freud S. (1913 {1912-1913}). Totem and Taboo. In: Standard Ed of the Complete Psychological Works, vol. XIII. [Translated by Jayme Solomon]. Rio de Janeiro: Imago; 1969. p. [...]

[...] In this regard, with suitable intensive care, can reverting this size. Di Biaggi (2001, p.2) shows that [ . ] Mediated by critical care professionals, the real possibilities of restoring the balance of patients are part of a costly and difficult process, oscillating in certainties and often incomprehensible to lay people who endow the ICU - Intensive Care Unit - a stigma of unavoidable pain and suffering, producing this same line, psychological manifestations in maximum degrees. Di Biaggi (2001) also mentions that cardiovascular emergencies, metabolic, renal, neurological, and digestive tract; trauma, major burns, organ transplantation and postoperative high-risk surgeries are the typical conditions for ICU admission. [...]

[...] Training in psychology does not include the debate on health in their political, social and economic aspects. The psychological subject is taken on the margins of these processes, without a broader discussion of health, which allows a seizure of the disease process as part of a broader context, complex and multidimensional, critical to the basement of the psychologist's practice at a general hospital . It is feared that, by these factors often the professional is part of a healthcare team, marked by the doctor know the hierarchy, trying to implement in your practice clinical model learned in graduate without understanding the complexity of the health sector in Brazil . [...]

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