A contribuição da arquitetura hospitalar na cura: caso de um centro de tratamento de queimaduras para Maringá - PR

Abstract

Burns injuries are the main causes of deaths recorded in Brazil, losing only to others violent causes such as traffic accidents and homicides. It’s also considered one of the most desvasteting injuries because it culminates in physical, psychoogical, aesthetic social sequels and it haunts patients with a very high mortality rate and infections. Patients with burn injurie need referral treatment, because they generally have a complex, vulnerable and often instable clinical picture. For this kind of treatment specialized literature recomends that the burned one should be transferred to a Burn Treatment Center, so that such lesion are treated in specialized and, mainly, systemic manner, treatment that’s often not possible to be obtained in big hospitals. The rehabilitation and the possible resumption of the routine depends on the quality of the treatment offered both in the period of hospitalization and in the post and the environment where this patient will be treated has a great impact on his health. Therefore, one of main functions of architects is a design of eficiente projects that integrate functional, economic and environmental principles, while provinding comfort to users. In case of hospitals, since they’re constructions with a high degree of complexity and a main function is the treatment of patients’s health, the concern with environmental comfort should be doubled, providing besides the well-being, a better energy efficiency and the humanization of spaces. The humanization of hospital buildings goes beyond the physical cure of the patient, considering also your psychological rehabilitation, because this is determinant factor for the complete cure, since the hospital environment has a huge participation in the routine of patients, either temporarily or as permanent shelter. This article aims to demonstrate the existance of several concepts of humanization in hospital spaces, and to discuss how these issues are addressed by the main norms of health care establishments and to analyzes flows, acesses and legislation related to this type of project. Thus, this research has as main objective to demonstrate how architecture can become a health promoter through more humane and pleasant environments, thus making healing process, as well as pass away, more healthy and dignified.