Is incentive spirometry effective following thoracic surgery?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 297-300

  Agostini, Paula ^a   Calvert, Rachel ^b   Subramanian, Hariharan ^c   Naidu, Babu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Incentive spirometry; Postoperative physiotherapy; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SPIROMETRY; THORAX SURGERY;

AGED; BENCHMARKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PNEUMONECTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPIROMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41849093699     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.171025     Document Type: Article

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