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Inflammation and destruction of alveoliOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Exacerbations are an important outcome measure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to their profound effect on the patient’s quality of life and prognosis. It has been estimated that patients with COPD suffer one to four exacerbations per year, and up to 70% of the direct health care costs associated with the disease are due to severe exacerbations, particularly those requiring hospitalization (Hurst, 2010).
The Subjects of the study consisted of two groups:
A convenience sample of sixty adult patients aged 18 years or more of both sexes who were admitted to the previously mentioned setting were included in this study.
The sixty patients were assigned in two groups (control and studied) thirty in each. The control group involved patients receiving the routine medical therapy while the studied group involved patients who received the pulmonary rehabilitation pathway from admission to RICU until patient’s discharge.
The current study presented that length of stay (LOS) for the studied and control groups. It was monitored that all patients (100%) of studied group compared to (3.3%) of the control group stayed in RICU from (1-5 days), while (70%) of the control group stayed in RICU from (6-10 days) with significance difference where (p ≤ 0.000). Also the Median of the LOS for the studied and control groups was (5 and 7 days) respectively.