Topical Treatment for Bleeding from Tumor Wounds: An Integrative Review

Abstract

Objective: to carry out an integrative literature review, focused on the identification and evaluation of primary studies aiming at the topical control of bleeding in tumor wounds. Methods: bibliographic research was carried out from December 2020 to January 2021 in the Scopus, Cinahl, PubMed and Web of Science databases and used the keywords wounds and injuries, hemorrhage, neoplasms and nursing and the keywords symptom management, bleeding and therapeutics. Results: The final sample consisted of 06 studies. The most frequent designs were case series / case report, with five studies (83.3%), and one cohort study (16.7%). Therefore, five studies (83.3%) presented evidence level 6 (weak) and one (16.7%), evidence level 4 (moderate). Conclusion: it is recommended that further studies with a better methodological design be conducted in order to produce more concrete evidence.