THE IMPORTANCE OF NURSE’S ROLE IN THE WATER BALANCE OF PATIENTS AFFECTED BY SARS-CoV-2 WITH A PROGNOSIS FOR ACUTE RENAL INSUFFICIENCY IN INTENSIVE THERAPY UNIT

Abstract

The COVID-19 caused several damages to the health of the entire population in a worldwide level, the collapse caused by the virus has  affected directly the health systems and the course of people's lives, socially and economically. In the field of health, there was an intense mobilization on the part of the professionals who came together to face the pandemic, working on the front line fighting against the spreading virus and rehabilitation of public health. Objective: The assumption of this review is to describe the relationship between the incidence of AKI in patients affected by SARS-CoV-2 and the main factors of aggravation, relating the predisposition suggested by the impairment caused by the virus and the efficiency of a proper volume management by nurses. Materials and Methods: the methodology used in this study is an integrative review with exploratory purpose through bibliographic research that deals with content related to the theme in question. Results: AKI due to COVID-19 infection was a key finding to understand how the virus acts in the human body and how it causes the various hemodynamic changes due to systemic collapse. Conclusion: The importance of the nurse's performance in the face of patients contaminated by the virus who developed AKI due to the severity of the course of the disease is indisputable, the BH has shown to have full substantiation for directing an effective therapy with hemodynamic measurement monitoring volume and recent identification of the possibility of renal damage.