Performance and labor conditions of physiotherapists in Brazilian intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic. What did we learn?
Andressa Sabrina de Oliveira ResendeSuzi Laine Longo Dos Santos BacciÍtalo Ribeiro PaulaLeandro Alves PereiraCíntia JohnstonValéria Cabral Neves LuszczynskiVívian Mara Gonçalves de Oliveira AzevedoPublished in: Critical care science (2023)
Intensive care units with 24-hour/day physiotherapists had higher percentages of protocols and noninvasive ventilation for patients with COVID-19. The use of specific resources varied between the types of intensive care units and hospitals and in relation to the physiotherapists' labor conditions. This study showed that most professionals had little experience in intensive care and low wages.