Pulmonary rehabilitation, also called respiratory rehabilitation, is a broad therapeutic program for people with chronic respiratory disease who remain symptomatic or continue to have reduced function despite standard medical treatment. The American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society define it as an evidence-based, multidisciplinary and comprehensive intervention for symptomatic patients with chronic respiratory disease whose daily activity is often limited by their condition. It consists of a series of services delivered to patients and their families, aimed chiefly at improving the patient's quality of life, delivered in a range of settings depending on the patient's needs and sometimes combined with medication.
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Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_rehabilitation, lead sectionQuote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_rehabilitation, lead section
Pulmonary rehabilitation, also known as respiratory rehabilitation, is an important part of the management and health maintenance of people with chronic respiratory disease who remain symptomatic or continue to have decreased function despite standard medical treatment.
2. Lung India: Initial Steps in Pulmonary Rehabilitation (Vaishali 2019)
K Vaishali and Mukesh Kumar Sinha, Lung India, 2019History section, on Pettys programQuote, History section, on Pettys program
In the late 1960, Petty et al. developed a program called "standardized outpatient program of pulmonary rehabilitation" consisting of various components such as patient individualized information of their disease, airway clearance introduction to their treatment protocol, breathing retraining, physical conditioning, drug therapy, and use of supplementary O2 therapy.
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