RESUMO
Evaluation the patients for determining the sings of increasing intracranial pressure[ICP] is one of the most important nursing activities. One of the problems in caring the patients withneurologicaldisordersisfindingtheintracranialpressureandpreventionof itssecondarycomplications.The aim of this descriptive comparative survey was to evaluate the alterations of intracranialpressure due to some curative and health activities in patients admmitted to intensive care unit of Shiraz Namazee hospital.In this study the effects of 18 health care activities with 1620 repeatswere evaluate in 6 patients with increased ICP due to head injuries.A researcher- made check list was used for data collection after determining proper reliability andvalidity. Central and descriptive tendency, Spearman coefficient and Wilcoxon tests were used fordata analysis. The results of this survey showed that from 18 activities that showed significant differencein ICP, dressing change of catheter site, had highest pressure differential mean [9.62] and activity ofpupil reaction of left eye to light had lowest pressure differential mean [1.40] respectively. Theresults also showed that among 1620 repeated activities only three were associated with decreased ICP.The result showed that, dressing change of catheter insertion site and inserting angiochat had lowestand highest correlation coefficients 0.17 and 0.8 respectively.Although arising ICP has seen after implementation of 18 health care activities but theraise was transient and reconvert in less than one minute