Fisioterapia respiratória em pacientes com câncer pulmonar: revisão de literatura

Abstract

Introduction: Lung cancer patients are more inclined to progress to respiratory insufficiency. The physical therapy is going to act helping on the symptomatology, in order to alleviate the limitations caused to the patients and so provide a better quality of life (QOL). Objective: Analyse the most used respiratory physiotherapy treatments and its effects in patients with lung cancer. Methodology: It is a comparative literature review using scientific articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English languages from scientific databases like Scielo, Pubmed/Medline, Lilacs, EBSCO host Research Databases, using these descriptors: Lung cancer; respiratory physical therapy; respiratory distress; palliative care. It were selected publications from the last ten years about resources and techniques of respiratory physical therapy on the pre and post-operative of the lung resection surgery, palliative care and conventional treatment. Results: It were found 113 articles related with lung cancer, 10 articles about medical intervention (conservative, surgical and palliative), 25 articles about physical therapy on the lung cancer, 7 articles specifically about respiratory physical therapy. It were used exercise programs, bronchial hygiene therapy and ventilation with non-invasive positive pressure mainly at the post-operative of the lung resection surgery, according with the patients’ needs. Conclusion: The respiratory physical therapy can contribute to the improvement of the lung cancer patients’ QOL by maintaining the muscular strength, pulmonary ventilation and oxygenation.

Keywords: Lung Neoplasms; Physical Therapy Specialty; distress and respiratory.