Resgate fisioterapêutico para pacientes com comprometimento da função pulmonar e câncer de pulmão

Abstract

In the staging of in-patients with pulmonary neoplasms in the thoracic surgery infirmary of Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto we often face cases in which surgery is advised, but the pulmonary function test show a forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) below acceptable reference values, indicating such surgical intervention to be inadvisable due to high periprocedural morbimortality. In order to make such patients eligible to pulmonary resection, the efficacy of physical therapy to improve pulmonary function through preprocedural exercise and non-invasive ventilation has been investigated. This case report presents the physical therapy of a patient previously ineligible for a proposed procedure: non- -invasive ventilation associated with resisted exercise for the upper limbs, which made her eligible for surgical intervention. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]