Os benefícios da mobilização precoce em pacientes internados na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

With the technological advances the patients of the Unit of Intensive Therapy (ICU) are surviving more. However, they develop by the time of hospitalization, immobilisms and significant motor sequelae. Complications resulting from the deleterious effects of ICU immobility contribute to functional decline, increased care costs, reduced quality of life, and post-discharge survival. Physiotherapy, in the early mobilization, arises with strategic therapeutic to improve the functional status of the patient. It shows safe and viable techniques, which can bring potential benefits to patients hospitalized in ICU, thereby accelerating the functional recovery process. This study aimed to verify in the literature the benefits of early mobilization in patients admitted to the ICU. The research was carried out through the LILACS, SciELO and Pubmed databases from 2012 to 2017, using the descriptors: physiotherapy, Intensive care unit, early mobilization . With this, it is concluded that early mobilization is able to promote improvement in functional capacity, quality of life, peripheral and respiratory muscle strength, in addition to reduction of hospitalization time and Mechanical Ventilation (MV).