Abstract
To analyze the national and international scientific productions on blood transfusions that occur in the environment of neonatal intensive care units. This was a descriptive qualitative study, integrative literature review type. The searches were performed in the databases BDENF, LILACS and MEDLINE. Descriptors in health sciences and their respective English terms were used in the Medical Subject Headings. We considered materials with languages in Portuguese, Spanish and English; contained in scientific journals published from 2014 to 2019, without restriction as to the level of evidence. For analysis, 08 articles were selected. The data were processed in the IRAMUTEQ® software and analyzed descriptively from the similarity analysis. It observed the formation of a tree with six interconnected nucleus, highlighting in these groupings the following words: “no”, “practical”, “necessary”, “care”, “newborn”, “transfusion”, “relationship”, “study”, “error”, “information”, “system”, “research”, “especially”, “notification”, “discussion”, “incident”, “adverse” and “damage”. The theme of blood component transfusion in neonatal intensive care units have been recognized as important for therapy in neonatal care; however, there are risks inherent to this therapy. Being evidenced in the texts the need for monitoring and control of the process of adverse reactions that occur related to blood.