LATERAL AMIOTHROPHIC SCLEROSIS:

PHYSIOPATHOLOGY AND NURSING CARE

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is characterized as a neurodegenerative and debilitating condition of the central and peripheral nervous system with the most common morphological presentation among the pathologies that affect the motor neuron. With a rare incidence, but a high rate of lethality and indiscriminate manifestation extended to the global population, the degeneration arising from the pathophysiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis demonstrates significant relevance to the insights of nursing science as provision of care and palliation through the systematization of superlative nursing care in nursing actions and interventions. The present study is a literature review research, composed of articles from journals and scientific magazines, in addition to strict books and consistent with the proposed theme. The objective was based on scientific reasoning, to explain the pathophysiology as an essential scientific aspect, relating it to the methodology properly exposed in the course of the aforementioned research, of the systematic assistance care practice in nursing intervention.