Correlation between functionality and pulmonary function in injured patients in Intensive Therapy Units

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The complications acquired in ICUs can negatively affect functionality, mobility and pulmonary function, leading to a less favorable prognosis. PURPOSE: To correlate function with pulmonary function in the admission and discharge of patients hospitalized in adult ICUs. METHODS: This is an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. Sociodemographic data were obtained in medical records; functionality and mobility were measured by FSS-ICU and IMS, respectively; and pulmonary function, represented by the CVL measurement. Data analysis was performed in the BioEstat 5.3 program, with the Shapiro-Wilk test to evaluate the distribution of the data, and since it was not normal, we used the Wilcoxon test of related samples. The significance level adopted was p ? 0.05 and the correlation coefficients with values between 0.00 and 0.25 indicated little or no correlation; 0.25 to 0.50, a weak degree of correlation; 0.50 to 0.75, a moderate to good correlation; above 0.75, a good to excellent grade. RESULTS: We included 44 participants, 61.4% male. The mean age was 53.68 years (SD: 16.73), mean hospitalization time of 3.52 days (SD: 1.53), diagnoses predominantly surgical (79.5%) and 97.7% were discharged from the ICU. We found a weak correlation between FSS-ICU-CVL and IMS-CVL, but with a statistical significance of 0.01 and <0.01, respectively, at discharge, but not at admission. CONCLUSION: There was a low correlation between functionality and mobility with pulmonary function at the time of discharge from ICU patients.