Occupational therapy perspectives for patients with circulatory system diseases in medium complexity hospital care

Introduction: Circulatory System Diseases have become the leading causes of adult and elderly population mortality and hospitalization worldwide over the years. Such reality was observed in the prevalence of hospitalized patients due to these diagnoses in a University Hospital. Objective: This study aimed to describe and analyze the occupational therapeutic strategies developed by Occupational Therapy in a medical clinic Ward of a medium-complexity hospital with this population during hospitalization. Method: The research has an exploratory and retrospective qualitative character, carried out between June and September 2019, based on documentary research referring to the Occupational Therapy records and the discharge summary of patients from 2014 and 2018. Result: Forty-six of 200 medical records selected with Diseases of the Circulatory System were analyzed. Most of them were male and over 60 years old and about half 22 (49%) reported diseases related to stroke. All participants showed some degree of dependence in the Modified Barthel Index. The themes and occupational therapeutic strategies were diversified and focused on functionality, subjective aspects of the patients, multi-professionality, and follow-up in the service network, and out-of-hospital care. Conclusion: Occupational Therapy favored the development of therapeutic strategies centered on the patients' demands from the perspective of humanization and comprehensiveness of care in line with SUS principles and guidelines and contributed to the expansion of knowledge about the contribution of Occupational Therapy in people's care who have CAD in the context of hospitalizatio