Articles: pandemics.
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Revista médica de Chile · Dec 2022
[Physical functioning assessment tools in critical care: a wide national survey in Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic].
Physical functioning evaluation in intensive care units (ICUs) identifies rehabilitation requirements and response to interventions. ⋯ The usage rate of muscle strength assessments was frequent, while the use of mobility and muscle mass instruments recommended by the literature was poorly reported, which was lower at the onset of the pandemic.
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Pol. Arch. Med. Wewn. · Nov 2022
ReviewChallenges in pulmonary rehabilitation: COVID-19 and beyond.
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a comprehensive multidisciplinary intervention requiring a team involving an expert chest physician, an exercise training specialist, a nutritional expert, a psychologist, a social worker, and an occupational therapist, who together aim at improving respiratory functional capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation in a large number of trials, systematic reviews, and meta‑analyses in pre-COVID-19 conditions, and the impact of pulmonary rehabilitation during the COVID‑19 pandemic was estimated based on results of abundant available studies. ⋯ The response to rehabilitation in patients with COVID‑19 is also satisfactory. The effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD patients shows an evolving need for health care professionals to design an individually tailored pulmonary rehabilitation program for patients with COVID-19 to alleviate the chronic symptoms and reduce complications.