Tecnologias aplicadas à parturiente de alto risco durante o trabalho de parto e parto em um hospital universitário

Abstract

In Brazil, approximately three million births take place every year, and 98% of them take place in hospitals, be they public or private. These places adopt several technologies in order to provide safer care for both mother and baby. In this context, these technologies are classified into three: soft, soft-hard, and hard technologies. The objective of this study was to survey the technologies applied to the high-risk parturient woman during labor and delivery. This was a descriptive, exploratory, observational study with a quantitative approach, carried out at the Hospital Universitário Professor Alberto Antunes with 204 pregnant women. For data collection a form was prepared containing dependent and independent variables to characterize the sample and specific data in the period from May to October 2022, after approval of the Ethics Committee by resolutions No. 466/2012, 510/2016 and 580/2018 of the National Health Council (CNS). The research had as main result the high use of soft technologies in the chosen context, but also evidenced the low use in the context of soft-hard technologies. Therefore, it can be concluded that future studies are still needed to further investigate what motivated the low uptake of some technologies in this context.