OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND CRITICAL ILL PATIENTS

• Main Authors: Francisca Celis, Carolina Gálvez, Christian Moretti, Erna Navarrete, Maximiliano Rovegno, Valentina Torrent
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Chile 2014-07-01
• Series: Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional
• Online Access: https://revistaterapiaocupacional.uchile.cl/index.php/RTO/article/view/32395

This study was conducted in The Unit Critics adult patients, Clinical Hospital of the Catholic University of Chile (UPC- HCPUC), in 2012, where the characteristics of critical patients were explored to obtain a profile of global health while in the UPC, in order to determine whether it would be possible to make an intervention from occupational therapy to be a contribution to this unit. A prospective, observational study in medical UPC-surgery for 25 days. The results allowed to characterize critical patients of this unit, as a subject with high probability of impairment of consciousness, edema in hand, limitation of joint range of motion (ROM ) in the wrist and fingers, and lack of stimuli that evoke your reality prior to hospitalization. Finally, from the analysis of the profile of critical patient - HCPUC UPC and the context to which it is exposed, it is concluded that early intervention occupational therapy could reduce and prevent the appearance of certain signs associated with critical patient, checking hypothesized that given the characteristics of this patient, it would be an intervention from Occupational Therapy