Preoperative inspiratory muscle training for postoperative pulmonary complications in adults undergoing cardiac and major abdominal surgery

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Katsura, Morihiro ^a,b   Kuriyama, Akira ^c   Takeshima, Taro ^a   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^a   Furukawa, Toshi A ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HYOGO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c KURASHIKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR SURGERY; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE TRAINING; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; ABDOMEN; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; BREATHING EXERCISE; BREATHING MUSCLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTIVE SURGERY; INHALATION; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURGERY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; BREATHING EXERCISES; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INHALATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES;

EID: 84961282972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010356.pub2     Document Type: Review

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