Occupational therapy in pediatric intensive care unit and neonatal intensive care unit. Systematic review

OBJECTIVE: List and describe the interventions performed by occupational therapists, make in children who are admitted to paediatric or neonatal intensive care units, included in the scientific literature. METHODOLOGY: A bibliographic search was performed on the Scopus, Cochrane, Web of Science, OT Seeker, Pubmed databases, which included works with the following designs: randomized clinical trial, cases and controls, pretest-postest studies, cross-sectional designs, cohort studies and qualitative studies, among others, in the last 10 years. RESULTS: 448 records, 66 were subjected to a full review, of which 19 studies met the inclusion criteria and were analysed. CONCLUSION: the occupational therapist figure is present in intensive care units. The main interventions performed by occupational therapists are: Positioning, eating and feeding, parent education and adapting and modifying environment. Finally, future research would be needed to properly outline the scope of action and contribute to an increase in the presence of this professional figure