Transporte inter-hospitalar de recém-nascido em estado crítico de saúde: revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

Study model : integrative review. Objective : to identify organizational behaviors described in the litera- ture about inter-hospital transport of newborns in critical health condition performed by means of ambu- lance. Methodology : integrative review with query in the databases: LILACS, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Web of Science and Scopus, during the period from September to November 2013. In order to perform the re- search, the non-controlled descriptors ‘newborn transport’, ‘newborn infants’ and ‘protocol’ were used, as well as the controlled descriptors ‘transport of patients’, ‘newborn’ and ‘ambulances’. The search was limited to papers published in Portuguese, English and Spanish, without an established period, which addressed the inter-hospital transport of critically ill newborn by ambulance. Results : 12 papers were selected. The identified behaviors were: pre-transport communication; composition of the team that wil