Effect of Therapeutic Modalities on the Physical Fitness and Functional Capacity in Critical Patient

Intervention study, prospective, comparative before-after, no control group, The sample was chosen for convenience and consisted of all patients during the eight months of the execution of research, met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, ie 23 patients. The recruitment of patients was very limited due to the complexity of their health condition. We included patients older than 18 years, with over 24 hours of stay in the intensive care unit, who were begin physical therapy. We excluded those who were hemodynamically unstable heart disease or severe, severe symptomatic stenosis, decompensated heart failure, uncontrolled arrhythmias, high blood pressure (systolic greater than 200 mmHg, diastolic greater than 110 mmHg), mean arterial pressure below 60 mmHg , uncontrolled systemic disease or end stage; limb with unstable or acute musculoskeletal injury, severe dementia or aggressive behavior that does not allow performing the procedure properly, injury or infection of the central nervous system and neuromuscular diseases which take motor control extremity, patients with inotropic or vasoactive treatment associated with severe sepsis or multisystem dysfunction.

To assess muscle strength in the grip using the Baseline ® hand dynamometer. The range of motion were measured using the electronic goniometer Biometrics ®. Functional capacity was assessed using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) (8), an instrument that allows the classification of individuals according to the score in independent, partially dependent or dependents.

Range of motion was measured articular shoulder abduction and flexion, hip abduction, dorsiflexion standing collar. Dynamometry was applied during the initial evaluation or after the patient's consciousness allowed, bilaterally, choosing the best score of three. The FIM, was filled out at the foot of the patient bed, by the evaluators. Were followed for clinical outcome in four days of starting treatment, and dynamometry applied only if the state of consciousness allowed. Evaluations were completed once the patient was transferred to the Special Care Unit (SCU).

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with more than 24 hours of stay in the Intensive Care Unit, who is going to start physical therapy.
• A patient who has a family to sign the informed consent and who can provide information for the processing of the instrument.

Exclusion criteria

• Heart diseases hemodynamically unstable or severe.
• High blood pressure (systolic, + 200 mm Hg, diastolic, +110 mm Hg).
• Mean arterial pressure below 60 mm Hg.
• Uncontrolled systemic disease or terminal condition.
• Tip with unstable musculoskeletal injury or acute.
• Severe dementia or behaviors that do not allow to perform the procedure properly.
• Injuries and / or infection of the central nervous system.
• Neuromuscular diseases in which motor control lost limbs.
• Patient in ICU inotropic and vasoactive treatment high associated to sepsis and / or severe multisystem dysfunction medication order can not mobilize.