Respiratory care
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Use of a Home-Based Manual as Part of a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program.
Pulmonary rehabilitation programs improve exercise capacity and quality of life in patients with COPD. Domiciliary strategies to maintain these benefits have been proposed. ⋯ The use of a simple, well-illustrated manual facilitated the maintenance of the benefits acquired in out-patient pulmonary rehabilitation over a period of 3 months after study termination.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effects of Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation on Airway Mucus Clearance Among Mechanically Ventilated ICU Subjects.
Few studies have evaluated the effects of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MI-E) in subjects on mechanical ventilation. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of MI-E on airway mucus clearance among mechanically ventilated ICU subjects. ⋯ Among the general ICU subjects receiving mechanical ventilation, use of an MI-E device during respiratory physiotherapy resulted in a larger amount of airway mucus clearance than respiratory physiotherapy alone. (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT03178565.).