Construção de um checklist para a caixa de emergência do 2º Centro de Saúde Domingos Honório da Silva

Abstract

Primary health care is considered the gateway to attend the demands in the Brazilian Healthcare System. This characteristic sets up a very embracing level of capillarity, which allows this sphere of health to offer care from the lowest level of complexity to the demands where the instability of vital functions occurs. Primary health care can be a sphere capable of offering highly complex assistance, nevertheless it is necessary to have the resources to promote safe and effective assistance. Objective: Create a checklist for the emergency kit of the Domingos Honório da Silva 2nd Healthcare Center, which is a Basic Health Unit in Arapiraca city. Methodology: the present study was developed using situational strategic planning and quick estimate methods. The intervention proposal to solve the problem identified by the multidisciplinary team consisted of creating a checklist for the emergency kit of the Domingos Honório da Silva 2nd Healthcare Center. A literature review was executed and specific aspects were raised regarding the reality of the resources of the Domingos Honório da Silva 2nd Healthcare Center. The literature review was executed according to the norms of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards and the Health Sciences Descriptors were used: Primary Health Care, Urgent care and Emergency, articulated through Boolean operators AND or OR, in order to better direct the search for texts focused on the approached theme. Final considerations: The implementation of a checklist for the emergency kit of the Domingos Honório da Silva 2nd Healthcare Center is an innovative strategy that aims to optimize the assistance provided in urgent and emergency situations, intervening on the problems that used to impair the quality of care offered.