Search

Patients who are in the intensive care unit have an accentuated hypercatabolic state in addition to a prolonged resting state, so it is important that the medical effort is aimed at improving all aspects that are affected by the root of the hospital stay. Multidisciplinary therapy is one of the goals that should be achieved in all units so that doctors and physiotherapists are involved early in the rehabilitation of severe patients. The early implementation of the use of the stabilized table in the ICU tries to improve the changes in the different systems of the organism, being adjuvant in conventional medical therapy, with results demonstrated in the improvement of patients in various published studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Burning pain is one of the most frequent and difficult to treat complications due to various mechanisms that trigger it, several management strategies have been used, with beneficial results, an alternative non-pharmacological treatment of pain is the application of virtual reality, which allows a new form of distraction, giving the patient the illusion of immersion in a three-dimensional environment generated by a computer, which simulates the illusion as if the patient were physically in the place that at that moment is observing; this is a non-invasive strategy, at the head of the patient, which allows the patient to be more relaxed in painful situations such as healing, physical rehabilitation, position changes, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]