Serviços de terapia renal substitutiva em Volta Redonda: estrutura e adequação às normas de funcionamento

Abstract

The number of patients with chronic kidney disease is increasing worldwide at an alarming rate. As a result has also been increasing the amount of individuals dependent on the quality and access dialysis treatment to ensure survival and quality of life. This caution, however, still presents significant problems in many parts of the country. Although an appropriate structure is necessary, although insufficient for quality care, one can assume that it increases the likelihood that the assistance be of better quality and potential to promote more positive health outcomes. This study, descriptive and normative, aimed to map the dialysis services in the city of Volta Redonda providing procedures for the NHS and examine their compliance with the minimum standards found in various resolutions and other laws on the subject, focusing on aspects of structure and process. To this end, we used three complementary strategies: (a) search for secondary data found in national databases and local (b) interviews with the technicians responsible for the two units in the municipality, with the head of the Superintendency of Control, Assessment and Audit of SMS / VR and the State Sanitary Surveillance, and (c) take copies of inspection reports carried out in health services in the years 2010 and 2011. The results are presented in six categories: (1) knowledge about the admissions process and preparation of patients for entry into Renal Replacement Therapy, (2) compliance of dialysis services in Volta Redonda existing legal requirements, unfolding in physical structure, park equipment, dialysis modalities offered, control and quality of water used in dialysis, infection control activities and health protection of workers, (3) flow of referral of patients on dialysis for transplantation, (4) monitoring of indicators periodic evaluation of dialysis services, (5) Production of health care services and, finally, (6) actions to control and evaluate the units developed with Renal Replacement Therapy. The study identified that in many ways, dialysis services in Volta Redonda are out of compliance with legal requirements expressed in the various ordinances and resolutions dealing with the structure and operating conditions of service of renal replacement therapy. This is serious and can be meaning that patients who use these services may in some way, be receiving care far from perfect. It was also shown the difficulty of the Service Control, Audit and Oversight of SMS / VR work together in setting up monitoring in fulfilling the demands made by the national surveillance state, which may contribute to improve the quality of care received by patients with chronic renal failure in Volta Redonda.