Pulmonary Rehabilitation Principles in SARS-COV-2 Infection (COVID-19): The Revised Guideline for the Acute, Subacute, and Post-COVID-19 Rehabilitation

Overview

Journal Turk J Phys Med Rehabil

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 2021 Aug 16

PMID 34396064

Citations 9

Authors

Yesim Kurtais Aytur

Belma Fusun Koseoglu

Ozden Ozyemisci Taskiran

Nilufer Kutay Ordu Gokkaya

Sibel Unsal Delialioglu

Birkan Sonel Tur

Selda Sarikaya

Hulya Sirzai

Tulay Tekdemir Tiftik

Ebru Alemdaroglu

Fikriye Figen Ayhan

Burcu Duyur Cakit

Aysun Genc

Ibrahim Gundogdu

Rengin Guzel

Derya Demirbag Kabayel

Basak Bilir Kaya

Oznur Oken

Hande Ozdemir

Feray Soyupek

Canan Tikiz

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Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious infection disease, which may cause respiratory, physical, psychological, and generalized systemic dysfunction. The severity of disease ranges from an asymptomatic infection or mild illness to mild or severe pneumonia with respiratory failure and/or death. COVID-19 dramatically affects the pulmonary system. This clinical practice guideline includes pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) recommendations for adult COVID-19 patients and has been developed in the light of the guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 provided by the World Health Organization and Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Health, recently published scientific literature, and PR recommendations for COVID-19 regarding basic principles of PR. This national guideline provides suggestions regarding the PR methods during the clinical stages of COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 with its possible benefits, contraindications, and disadvantages.

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