Preoperative respiratory muscle endurance training improves ventilatory capacity and prevents pulmonary postoperative complications after lung surgery: a randomized controlled trial.

CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative RMET improved respiratory muscle endurance and decreased pulmonary postoperative complications after surgery for NSCLC. These positive results obtained after RMET may help improve the perioperative course for such patients. These results should be confirmed in larger randomized controlled trials, including higher number of patients especially with altered respiratory muscle function. CLINICAL REHABILITATION IMPACT: Low-cost and easy to perform, RMET training could serve as complementary tool to usual chest physical therapy, before lung resection surgery. PMID: 31489810 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - September 3, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Laurent H, Aubreton S, Galvaing G, Pereira B, Merle P, Richard R, Costes F, Filaire M Tags: Eur J Phys Rehabil Med Source Type: research