The Effects of Pulmonary Physiotherapy Treatments on Patients With COVID-19

Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2020
The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of pulmonary physiotherapy on respiratory functions in hospitalized patients with Novel Coronavirus 2019 pneumonia. Patients will be randomized into 1) intervention group: receiving pulmonary physiotherapy technique to improve pulmonary function and walking training or 2) control group: Usual medical care. Patients in both groups will receive therapeutic incentive spirometer. Various outcome measurements of pulmonary functions will be evaluated before and after of interventions. Mortality rate, hospitalization duration and re-admission will be followed until one month after end of intervention. Also, patient\'s quality of life will be measured after one month.
Epistemonikos ID: 7d992aece0bd78bd8d82f91cbdf7f8b2d0ab1ce4
First added on: Apr 23, 2020