Impact of Positive End Maximum Voluntary Ventilation and Dyspnea Index in Patients After Valvular Heart Surgery

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2020
Pulmonary mechanics are further disturbed after cardiothoracic surgery that manifests like restrictive pathology, which may persist for weeks to months postoperatively. This experimental aimed to investigate the efficacy of a positive end-expiratory pressure device on maximum expiratory pressure, maximum voluntary ventilation, and dyspnea index in patients who underwent valve surgery.
Epistemonikos ID: 9b1040bdfab0eb53fca1b07a32739a7ad54c59d1
First added on: May 10, 2024