O Fisioterapeuta como Membro da Equipe Multidisciplinar no Pronto Socorro.

Physiotherapy can be defined as the health science that studies, prevents and treats functional disorders. Emergency room is a sector of hospital health, service of secondary care and generally at the hospital entryway, where various types of patients come in who can be classified a state of urgency or emergency and run imminent death risk. The purpose of this study was to present the main activities of the physiotherapist and the his or her importance in the multidisciplinary team in emergency care in the emergency room. In this study, it was talked about the emergency room profiles with health indicators, use of emergency services and the causes why patients look for it, besides the physiotherapist's role as a member of the multidisciplinary team, as well as the current legislation on the subject. The professional insertion in the units is recent, and the studies are insufficient involving this new field, thus it is proposed further studies to evaluate the professional practice impact in the industry, and is of utmost importance that the professionals who will work in this new field to catch up on due to the area that he or she is inserted to.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]