AMBIENTE HOSPITALAR: análise da estrutura físico-funcional da UTI de um Hospital Universitário

Abstract

This paper deals with the physical and functional structure of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Maternal Child Hospital in the Federal University of Maranhão. The conceptual and theoretical aspects on health policies are discussed as well as the historical aspects of the hospital building, one of the most complex structures that exist, where activities are developed having as objective the prevention, the cure and the rehabilitation of human beings in their training Initial life. It is a surrender of legal instruments for the normalization of Establishments Assistance of Health, with emphasis on the resolution of Collegiate Directors n º 50/Agencia Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), which is an important tool for the organization of these environments, regarding the function-flow. Addresses on the hospital's point of view of architecture by presenting the hospital types, the evolution of this area and the influence of new technologies, the environmental comfort and employment of medical gases in that context. After that, it is discoursed on the university hospitals in Brazil up to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) itself, and its peculiarities. In conclusion, with the recognition of the importance of this unit, are some final considerations that point to a study on the environmental quality of the University Hospital of the University of Maranhao.