Key Findings: Obesity reduces cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), leading to decreased lung capacity and increased oxygen demands during physical...

Key Findings: Obesity reduces cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), leading to decreased lung capacity and increased oxygen demands during physical...
By Noman Elahi, M.Phil.CLINICAL CONTEXT AND KEY FINDINGS The cessation of sleep due to complete or partial obstruction of upper air passages is the...
Respiratory muscles are not only critical elements for breathing, they also function as key components of the speech and swallow mechanisms, even...
Respiratory muscle training (RMT) has proven effective in the pre- and postoperative care to prevent respiratory muscle weakness. Evidence has shown...
Coughing protects the lungs from aspiration, but is less effective in people with respiratory muscle weakness. Aspiration can lead to pneumonia, a...
Respiratory muscle weakness is prevalent among people with spinal cord injuries and leads to poor airway clearance and pneumonia. Twenty-eight...
Dyspnea causes distress in about 70% of people with lung cancer, and can affect up to 90% of patients suffering from advanced lung cancer....
In general, patients with COPD are frequent health care users. As many as 12% of COPD patients have frequent exacerbations, which account for 60% to...
Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC), including pneumonia, have not improved much despite advances in perioperative care and medical...
Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) caused by injury are the leading cause of sickness and death after major cardiac or abdominal surgery....