background & aim: the aim of this clinical trial study was to evaluate sleep quality in patients with chronic lung disease and the role of controlled breathing to improve the quality of sleep. methods & materials: sixty-four patients with chronic lung disease in two group (experimental and control group) enrolled in a 7 weeks. before interventions, the pittsburgh sleep quality index (psqi) and ...

BACKGROUND Coughing has been identified as the most painful experience post cardiac surgery. METHODS Participants (n = 32), in a randomized crossover trial, applied a frozen gel pack to their sternal incision dressing before performing deep breathing and coughing (DB & C) exercises. Pain scores from 0 to 10 at rest were compared with pain scores post DB & C with and without the gel pack. Part...

The effect of positive expiratory pressure breathing, alone and in combination with coughing, was investigated in eight patients with cystic fibrosis. Functional residual capacity and total lung capacity was measured with a body plethysmograph before, during, and immediately after breathing with expiratory pressure of 5 and 15 cm H2O, and after a coughing period. The positive expiratory pressur...

While personalized ventilation (PV) has been integrated to enhance inhaled air quality, some studies showed that it can contribute contaminants' transport indoors. This work investigates the effect of individual preferences PV users on potential cross-contamination in an office. Two occupants were using PV, sitting either face or back (i.e. tandem). One was infecting office space through two re...

OBJECTIVE to assess the intensity and site of pain after Cardiac Surgery through sternotomy during rest and while performing five activities. METHOD descriptive study with a prospective cohort design. A total of 48 individuals participated in the study. A Multidimensional Scale for Pain Assessment was used. RESULTS postoperative pain from cardiac surgery was moderate during rest and decreas...

This study aims to determine the effective breathing exercise technique on respiratory function in post-abdominal surgery patients. research design is a literature using search engines Science Direct, EBSCO, Wiley Online, and Clinical Key. The results showed similarities interventions applied, namely exercises with various techniques such as deep exercise, coughing activity, balloon blowing pur...

Methods: 34 adult patients 20 to 60 years of age, ASA status of I & II undergoing elective lateral and posterolateral thoracotomy were included in this study. Exclusion criteria were, patients with any systemic comorbidity and any contraindication to regional anesthesia. Patients were allocated into two groups by computer generated randomisation chart: Group 1 received thoracic epidural analges...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of individual-focused stress management training namely deep breathing exercise (dbe) on self-perceived occupational stress among male automotive assembly-line workers.a quasi-experimental study was conducted at 2 automotive assembly plants in malaysia over 9 months, from january 2012 to september 2012. assembly-line workers from plant a r...

BACKGROUND It is often assumed that horses with mild respiratory clinical signs, such as mucous nasal discharge and occasional coughing, have an increased risk of developing recurrent airway obstruction (RAO). HYPOTHESIS Compared to horses without any clinical signs of respiratory disease, those with occasional coughing, mucous nasal discharge, or both have an increased risk of developing sig...