Predictive clinical factors for ocular dryness in patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

Conclusion Hyperemia, mucous secretion, eyelid edema and lagophthalmia are the predictive clinical factors for the nursing diagnosis Risk for dry eye and also of ocular dryness in the intensive care unit environment which deserve special attention in the preventive evaluation.
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - Category: Nursing Source Type: research