Rajiv Gandhi University Of Health Sciences, Karnataka

Chest physiotherapy aims to decrease the pulmonary complications and hasten recovery. In a non-randomised pilot study reported that among 263 patients found that chest physiotherapy decreased the occurrence of pulmonary complications (17%, p=0.01) and length of stay on the surgical high dependency unit (3.1 vs. 4 days p=0.03). (27) ................
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