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Head of Department
Aim :
To maintain and improve cardiac endurance and lung volumes and capacities through the divine technique like chest physiotherapy.
Objectives :
- To teach student different assessment and treatment skills to encourage them to learn evidence-based medicine. To empower the student to handle emergency situations and help learn CPR skills.
- To tackle restrictive and obstructive lung disease through newer methods and recent research.
- To find out the respiratory problems in occupational disease and role of physiotherapy in industrial health.
- To improve endurance through aerobic and anaerobic conditioning.
- To mobilize secretion and to improve respiratory tract health through different types of breathing exercises, percussion and vibration techniques of physiotherapy.
Following conditions are treated here COPD, Bronchiectasis etc
- Asthma
- Pulmonary Koch’s Disease
- Pleural Effusion
- Patients on Mechanical Ventilator in ICU
- Post-cardiac surgery (CABG, Valve replacement etc)
- Burns
- Radical Mastectomy
- Amputations
The work of the Cardiovascular Respiratory physiotherapy team is mainly focused on:
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Pulmonary Function Testing and Training
- Exercise testing and Prescription
- Aerobic Training
- Use of Respiratory aids like Flutter, Incentive Spirometer
- Postural Drainage, Nebulisation and Suctioning
- ICU Rehabilitation
- Burns Management
- Amputation Management