Fisioterapia na UTI neonatal: a utilização do ofurô como método de relaxamento e diminuição do quadro álgico em recém-nascidos pré-termo

Abstract

The environment of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is very noisy, resulting in harm and complications in newborns (NB). These newborns are hospitalized due to their prematurity, and are admitted here to develop and treat their pathology. Therefore, the environment in which this newborn is hospitalized is not very pleasant, it is noisy, for this reason the newborn ends up feeling stressed, and as a result, the physiotherapist uses hydrotherapy, known as a hot tub. The main objective of the present study is to review the literature on the benefits of the hot tub in relaxing and alleviating pain in preterm newborns in the neonatal ICU. This is an integrative, quantitative literature review, based on databases such as Lilacs, Scielo, Medline and Google Scholar, seeking to answer the problematization of the present study. The results of the research were obtained from 50 articles, after detailed analysis, 10 articles were selected to generate the results and discussion of this work. In view of the selected articles, it was seen that the hot tub had effects on newborns in the NICU, participating in relaxation and reducing pain and external signs. It is concluded that the hot tub as a method of relaxation and increasing pain in preterm newborns, provides beneficial benefits in improving pain and relaxation, and acts on other physiological effects in the newborn.