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Nursing diagnoses in trauma victims with fatal outcomes in the emergency scenarioDOI: 10.1590/S0104-11692012000100002 Keywords: nursing diagnosis, emergency medical services, nursing records, wounds and injuries, death. Abstract: the objective of this study was to identify and analyze the nursing diagnoses that constitute risk factors for death in trauma victims in the first 6 hours post-event. this is a cross-sectional, descriptive and exploratory study using quantitative analysis. a total of 406 patients were evaluated over six months of data collection in a tertiary hospital in the municipality of s?o paulo, according to an instrument created for this purpose. of the total, 44 (10.7%) suffered death. multivariate analysis indicated the nursing diagnoses ineffective respiratory pattern, impaired spontaneous ventilation, risk of bleeding and risk of ineffective gastrointestinal tissue perfusion as risk factors for death and ineffective airway clearance, impaired comfort, and acute pain as protective factors, data that can direct health teams for different interventionist actions faced with the complexity of the trauma.
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