Reflexões sobre o papel do fonoaudiólogo no trabalho com bebês em maternidades na cidade de Salvador-Bahia

Abstract

This search´s objective was to describe and understand the development of the Speech Pathology intervention at babies in maternities from Salvador, how was the beginning of this intervention and how the practice is configured according the intitutions conditions. For this, a survey was realized to know the hospitals/maternities that exist in this city and then, a questionnaire was aplyed to verify if these places contain ICU´s and SICU s and Speech Pathologist working, the kind of relationship between this professional and the institution, and also the area that these professionals are working. Also were realized eight interviews with Speech Pathologists who introduced the service in maternities in Salvador (Ba). The interviews were transcribed, textualized, transformed to a deposition, and then analyzed and argued. From 16 maternities, only 14 answered the questionnaire, and there are Speech pathologists working in 9 of these- one of them is voluntary and another is under contract. Some Speech Pathologists just served the hospital or, in some cases, they were called by the newborn s family. The most part of these professionals work at the audiology area, realizing NHS; there are also some of them who realize sporadic sessions in oral motricity (OM). The interviews covered aspects like: scarcity at the undergraduation to act with babies; search of ways to complement the undergraduation and insert the professionals in the area; ways to spreading the service next to scientific production at the area, like the use of protocol; difficulties to be accepted at maternities, like delimitation of interested areas, resistance and lack of knowledge at others health professionals; possibility of acceptance in some multiprofessionals teams; initiative to introduce the service of Speech Pathology in maternities at audiology and oral motricity areas, like preconized at the literature; perspectives of work to Speech pathologists in public and private institutions. In spite of the area be in expansion, through this study was possible to know that there is a lack between the Speech pathologist´s presence necessity, and the way these professionals are working in hospitals/maternities in Salvador. Even with good searches around this topic, the ones that reflect the development of the most diversified clinical practices, there is already a question: why are there no Speech pathologists inserted at multiprofessionals teams in hospitals/maternities as a routine?!