This study is a reflection that objective to search as scientific production of nursing the care that involves the use of technologies and machines in units of intensive therapy, from the agreement concerning the care, technology and humanization, and the implications for the practical one to take care in technological units together the critical patients. Brings reflections about the thematic "humanization in units of intensive therapy", from the deepening of the readings and quarrel of the data in the construction of a Thesis in course in the Anna Nery School, whose object of inquiry is "the meaning of the care in units of intensive therapy". Was verified that that is the reflection concerning the practical ones to take care of in intensive therapy that disrespects its concepts, the context and its possibly bases, will be able to incur into mistakes to compromise, capable of if constituting epistemological obstacles.
Nursing Care; Technology; Intensive Care Units; Nursing