Equipamento fisioterapêutico e lúdico com pressão positiva na via aérea: bases projetuais

Abstract

Chest Physiotherapy uses equipment to develop the treatment, associates or not to others techniques. The equipment that promotes positive pressure in the airmail destined to the pediatric clientage scarce and is little adjusted. In this study, the projectual basis of a physiotherapy equipment with positive pressure in the form of Expiratory Positive Airway Presssure (EPAP) had been elaborated and that it contains the playful aspect. For this, the principles of the positive pressure, the importance of the playful one in the infantile therapeutical universe had been studied, carried through analyses in the existing product in the market, in accordance with the Methodology Projectual de Bonsiepe (1984) being elaborated a list of requirements to be reached. It was concluded selecting and describing four requirements of this list: playful, functional, ergonomic and hygienical. One suggested that detailed studies more are carried through by the team to interdisciplinary that it comes to participate of the planning of the product.