Cuidados paliativos e intervenções do fisioterapeuta: revisão de escopo.

Abstract

Introduction: Palliative care currently aims to promote the quality of life and the maintenance of human dignity in all stages of the disease, in death and mourning period, in the fragile patient and their family members. In this care, select the professional physiotherapist who after a specific evaluation, define an appropriate treatment program, with a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach, having as objective or harmful use the suffering, the use of pain and other stressful symptoms. Objective: To perform a scope review on the physiotherapeutic performance in palliative care in an intensive care unit. Method: In the search strategy, we used the Virtual Health Library (VHL), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (Lilacs) and the Electronic Scientific Online Library (Scielo) that served as data collection subsidies. The descriptors used in the databases were: physiotherapy and palliative care. The study included the texts available in full online, the last eight years of publication (2010 to 2018) and articles written in English and Portuguese. Results: A survey was conducted in May 2019, totaling 154 studies. However, after inclusion of candidates for inclusion, 14 studies were analyzed. Through this review, several aspects of the function and symptoms of the patient's general condition were improved. These benefits show the importance of physical therapy in the reality of patients in palliative care. Conclusion: Given this research, positive results regarding treatment and physical therapy in patients who are in palliative care. New practices and studies on this subject are required, as they observe general benefits and fragile patients.