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VEGA MORALES, Elsy Guadalupe; GOMEZ LUJAN, María del Pilar  e  BUSTAMANTE EDQUEN, Sebastián. Coupling Cybernetic Machine-Patient-Nursing. Enferm. univ [online]. 2012, vol.9, n.4, pp.21-34. ISSN 2395-8421.

This qualitative study aimed to describe and analyze the styles of care/caring given by nurses to adult patients under assisted mechanical ventilation in a Mexican regional hospital The works from the approach of Complex Thought by Maturana and Varela, and Figueiredo and Boff, provide its theoretical and philosophical foundations. A total of ten nurses from the adult intensive care unit of the Dr. Agustin O'Horán General Hospital in Merida Yucatan, Mexico participated in the study. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews and participant observation. The main subject of the study was; Coupling cybernetic machine-patient-nursing with subcategories, coupling patient-machine, coupling patient-nurse, and coupling family the hospital system. Highlighting the essential role of nurses care/caring in this coupling, the results obtained contribute to the construction of a specific body of scientific knowledge on nursing care/caring for patients under assisted mechanical ventilation. This study underlines the importance of nurses' daily care in the intensive care units for a successful cybernetic coupling between living and mechanical machines can take place.

Palavras-chave : Care; Nursing; Patient with Mechanical Ventilation; Cybernetic Coupling.