Rol del Fisioterapeuta en UCI

Abstract

In recent decades, scientific evidence has shown the importance of physiotherapy in intensive care units (ICU) for the management of critically ill patients throughout the life cycle, applying various techniques that seek to restore functionality, among them, mainly early mobilization and exercises that are pillars in physiotherapeutic intervention and that allow reducing the appearance of structural injuries, alterations in function and deficiencies associated with systemic complications due to critical illness, physical deconditioning, mechanical ventilation and time prolonged rest