Intensive physiotherapic respiratory care in critically ill patients with tracheostomy after cardiac surgery
Background. Patients following major cardiac surgery are increasingly elderly and present many comorbidities. For these reasons their post-operative phase is often burdened by several complications requiring a long stay in Critical Care and prolonged mechanical ventilation. Most of these patients, w...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2016-01-01
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Series: | Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease |
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Online Access: | https://www.monaldi-archives.org/index.php/macd/article/view/324 |