title: [Patient safety and the prevention of skin and mucosal lesions associated with airway invasive devices].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the care implemented by the nursing team to promote the safety of adult patients and prevention of skin and mucosal lesions associated with the presence of lower airways invasive devices.
  
  
  METHODS
  Study with qualitative and quantitative approach, descriptive and exploratory type, whose investigative scenarios were adult inpatient units of a hospital in the West Frontier of Rio Grande do Sul. The study subjects consisted of nurses, nursing technicians and nursing assistants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 118 professionals were interviewed. We highlight the observed specific care with endotracheal tube and tracheostomy, management and assessment of the cuff and the criteria used to secretion aspiration.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a superficial nursing work in the patient direct care and a differentiation in relation to the perception of nurse technicians, especially those working in the intensive care unit, who presented major property and view of the patient's clinical status.
authors.affiliation: Campus Uruguaiana, Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Deisy Mello de
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.affiliation: Campus Uruguaiana, Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Estela dos Santos
authors.initials: Edos S
authors.lastname: Schons
authors.affiliation: Campus Uruguaiana, Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Josefine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Busanello
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Valdecir Zavarese da
authors.initials: VZ
authors.lastname: Costa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000451:nursing*; D008297:Male; D009729:Nursing; D061214:Patient Safety; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D020545:Respiratory Mucosa / Q000293:injuries*; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries*; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000451:nursing*