Terapia ocupacional en pacientes ingresados en uci con daño neurológico y en estados de mínima conciencia.

Abstract

The population in which the article focuses, has suffered brain injury and required intensive care. We have been able to act in specific cases and thus reflect on how, with our intervention at an earlier stage can promote better patient outcomes. Although occupational therapists have been taught techniques used in vegetative state and minimally conscious, the first patient contact is not usually in units of intensive care, it will be much later, when the patient is stabilized Rehabilitation requires an interdisciplinary team that making a detailed assessment of the person´s functionality degree, and possible complications that can happens and the implementation of a management plan early in order to decrease the occurrence of difficulties and encourage the start of the rehabilitation process. The family is one of the principal axes in this process, through sensory stimulation techniques, and others described in the article we can involve them. The effectiveness of sensory stimulation techniques on people in coma is an issue that continues to debate, but it has been shown by RMF techniques (functional MRI), which are important for brain recovery.