Pulmonary Rehab

What is meant by Pulmonary Rehabilitation?

• To help healthy people

• It is a group and massive crowded treatment

• It is a comprehensive treatment designed for chronic respiratory disorder people

• It involves a short-term commitment only

The goal of Pulmonary Rehab is to improve the quality of life of patients by .....

1. Reducing shortness of breath

2. Lowering exercise tolerance

3. Promoting sense of well-being

4. Increasing number of hospitalization

• 1 & 2

• 1 & 3

• 2 & 3

• 3 & 4

Which one of this is NOT the indications for Pulmonary Rehab?

• COPD

• Asthma

• Lung transplant

• Neck of femur fracture

What are the absolute and relative contraindication for Pulmonary Rehab?

(more than one answer)

• Sleep disorder

• Recent myocardial infarction

• Severe arterial hypertension

• No metabolic disease

What are the most outcome measure used to examined the exercise capacity to exercise?

• Borg scale

• Sit to stand test

• Cardiopulmonary exercise testing

• Mini-mental state examination

Which of the following is not the component of Pulmonary Rehab?

• Patient education

• Inspiratory muscle training

• Exercise training

• Sedentary lifestyle

The frequency for exercise training for PR is minimum 3 session per week. True or False?

• True

• False

Nutritional intervention in PR is aim to improve body composition. true or false?

• True

• False

How to manage acute dyspnea in patient?

1. Breathing fast

2. purse-lip breathing

3. Forward-lean sitting position

4. Rollator for ambulation

• 1, 2 & 3

• 1, 2 & 4

• 1, 3 & 4

• 2, 3 & 4

________ is one of the ancillary therapy to reduce dyspnea by increasing airway diameter.

• Bronchodilator

• ventilation

• Oxygen

• Spirometer