Renata Martins

Tecnicas de fisioterapia respiratoria: efeito nos parametros cardiorrespiratorios e na dor do neonato estavel em UTIN

OBJECTIVES: to identify the effects of respiratory physiotherapy techniques (RPTs) on pain and cardiorespiratory functioning in clinically stable newborns, in a neonatal intensive care unit. METHODS: a blind randomized clinical assay was carried out. The newborns were allocated to three groups: G1-control; G2-conventional physiotherapy; G3-thoracic-abdominal re-equilibrium therapy. The newborns in G2 and G3 received a single intervention. All were evaluated prior to, immediately after and 15 minutes after the intervention and subsequent rest for cardio-respiratory parameters (peripheral oxygen/SpO2 saturation, cardiac /fc and respiratory /fr frequency) and pain (specific scales: NIPS, NFCS and PIPP). The data were analyzed using the chisquared, Friedman, and Kruskal-Wallis tests, then by way of multiple comparisons. The level of significance was p 0.05). In relation to pain, there were significant changes in the NIPS scale (G1 and G2, p=0.037 and p=0.011, respectively) and in the PIPP scale (G2, p=0.005). CONCLUSIONS: respiratory physiotherapy techniques did not produce pain or cardio-respiratory instability in the newborns studied.