Nursing Care and Physiotherapy in the Prevention of Pneumonia Associated With Mechanical Ventilation in Critical Patients

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:Mechanical ventilation is used in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), when there is absence or impairment in the patient's spontaneous breathing, being a possible propagator of pneumonia, requiring preventive management by a multidisciplinary team. OBJECTIVE: To describe which multidisciplinary measures must be adopted in an intensive care unit to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia. METHODS: A search was carried out for materials in the literature with publications between 2017 and 2022, in a database with the descriptors: "pneumonia", "mechanical ventilation", "nursing" and "physiotherapy". RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Applications of measurements of nursing and physiotherapy professionals in their specific and common nuclei in professional health practice for VAP prevention. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The multiprofessional team is essential in preventing and reducing the incidences of VAP, reducing the length of stay and the financial cost of the patient's stay in the ICU.