Abstract

JARRIN ANCHUNDIA, Pablo Stalyn. Early mobilization of the Intensive Care patient. Acta méd. Grupo Ángeles [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.3, pp.255-257.  Epub Feb 06, 2023. ISSN 1870-7203.  https://doi.org/10.35366/105729.

Abstract:

Physiotherapy in critical medical services is part of the care protocol established for patients who remain in the hospital for long periods of immobilization, in recent years both intensivist physicians and medical institutions have agreed on the importance of early mobilization of the critical patient. The objective of the professional in physical therapy is to mobilize all patients who have hemodynamic stability conditions, applying various progressive exercises, techniques that they will use depending on the inclusion and exclusion criteria in which the patient is found day after day, this causes that the physiotherapist is aware of the clinical changes that patients, which is why it is the duty of the physiotherapist to be present during medical visits, by allowing himself to give education of the exercises to the relatives of the critical patient, physiotherapy also acts as an ally in the humanization of the ICU.

Keywords : Early mobilization of the critical patient; organization and culture of physiotherapy; physiotherapy in Intensive Care Units.