Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the micropolitics of interbranch relations in a pediatric intensive care unit. It is a study with a qualitative approach, of cartographic character. Observations of the dynamics of relationships between the professionals and interviews with fourteen professionals from June to August 2014 were carried out. Interbranch relations are constituted in a hybrid territory formed by the intersection of biomedical knowledge, interventionist work practices with technological gadgets, which are regulated by standards, protocols, and by dealing with children and their parents. The affection aroused in professional front of spontaneity and children’s suffering destabilizes the regulatory and scientific plan of work towards the organic stabilization of children, unleashing new agencies of the professionals, sometimes loosening the rules, sometimes intensifying behaviors controllers and perfectionists. This paper also points out the importance of empowering the professionals’ inventive agencies, and creating mechanisms for collective action and knowledge towards promoting the clinical association of life with the survival.
Keywords:
pediatric ICU; interbranch relations of health; health care