Assistance technologies for nursing care in maintaining the potential organ donor: an integrative literature review

Abstract

Objective: To identify in the literature the scientific evidence about the technologies for nursing care in maintaining the potential organ donor. Methodology: This is an integrative literature review, with the following acronym / PICo strategy: What technologies are being produced and / or used for nursing professionals in maintaining the potential organ donor? Conducted in the databases BDENF, LILACS, MEDLINE/PUBMED and SciELO, the time frame comprised the period 1997 -2022, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The descriptors (Decs/ MESH) were used: Technology, Technology Applied to Health Care; Nursing Care; Nursing professionals, Organ Donor; Tissue donors, Critical care; Systematization of Nursing Care; Brain Death, combined with each other using the Boolean operators AND and OR. Results: 07 articles were found, and after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, only 01 sample was obtained. From the sample of selected studies, a Conceptual Theoretical Model of Health Technology (Assistive Technology-TA) was formulated, focusing on the potential organ donor. With this article it was possible to highlight the technology aimed at assisting in decision making (Assistive Technology-TA). Conclusion: It was concluded that assistive technology is an important tool to assist the professional in the introduction of subjects, also serving as a source of consultation in times of doubt. With the continuous use of the proposed technology, there may be an improvement in the care of the potential donor and, consequently, help to reduce the gap between supply and demand for organs, providing an increase in the number of brain death notifications, improvement in the maintenance of the PD individual and, aiming at a secondary way, increasing the number of organ captures and transplants in the country. The scarcity of technologies on this subject is emphasized, which raises the need for the production of such technologies and the publication of studies on this subject.