Marta Lazzeri, Enrico Maria Clini, Elena Repossini, Antonio Corrado "Esame clinico e valutazione in riabilitazione respiratoria" Download index Download the presentation of Prof. Ambrosino Euro 45,00 Printed: October 2006 Pages: 360 Illustrations: 100 Paperback binding Format: 17 x 24 cm ISBN 88214.2903.2 Click here to order a copy

 

This book, fruit of the collaboration between ARIR (Associazione Riabilitatori dell'Insufficienza Respiratoria) and AIPO (Associazione Italiana Pneumologi Ospedalieri), is addressed to respiratory physiotherapists with the purpose to foster the acquisition of those competences that are essential for a proper cooperation between different professional figures and, moreover, to give a fitting answer to our patients' needs.

Text opens with a chapter that underlines the need to look after, consider and value the personal aspects of patients. The two following chapters deal with principal signs and symptoms of the cardiorespiratory diseases.Afterwards, there's the section that covers main and more spread instrumental investigations that allow to set out level of impairment; then it follows the part that considers tests and measures of activity and participation of patients suffering from cardiorespiratory disease. In the end, the section about clinical employments, besides some methodolocigal directions, supplies tools for the evaluation of patients with most common respiratory diseases.

A book made according to need of a multidimensional assessment and realized with the collaboration of some among major experts in pulmonary rehabilitation. In every chapter, principal elements of the clinical and instrumental assessment are handled, alywas supported by evidences offered by scientific literature. A particular attention to the evaluation procedures makes this text an handy book to be used in the field.

CONTENTS

Section I- Interview and general observation: getting ready to meet the patient; interview and respiratory anamnesis; clinical evaluation of the patient with cardiorespiratory disease.
Section II- instrumental data: evaluation of the pulmonary volumes and of the diffusion; strength evaluatin of respiratory muscles; evaluation of gaseous exchanges: invasive and not invasive; laboratory tests; imaging ; Principal instrumentals cardiologici nvestigations; evaluation nutritional.
Section III- functional evaluation: exercise tolerance; cough effectiveness; evaluation of the dispnoea; evaluation of daily life activities; evaluation of quality of life; sleep quality.
Section IV - clinical employments: from assesment to the rehabilitation project and outcomes verification; evaluation of the COPD patient; cvaluation of the surgical patient; cvaluation of the patient in intensive care unit; evaluation of the neuromuscular patient; evaluation of the pediatric patient.

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