Quick Recall
You're educating a patient with pneumonia on how to deep breathe by using an incentive spirometer. Which of the following is the correct way to use this device?
- A. Encourage the patient to use it twice a day.
- B. The patient exhales into the device rapidly and then coughs.
- C. The patient inhales slowly from the device until no longer able, and then holds breath for 6 seconds and exhales.
- D. The patient rapidly inhales 10 times from the device and then exhales for 6 seconds.
This is a kind of breathing exercise which can be defined as BHASRIKA pranayan in YOGIC language Very useful to increase vital capacity and oxygen saturation Specifically i prefer for fibrosis lung Copd Chr bronchitis and asthma ILD Post illness of pneumonitis like covid But i prefer vigrous breathing
C is the best & most effective method for pneumonia pt .
SUGGESTIVE. OF . ...C....
The correct answer is, "C"
Patient needs to breathe im slowly, hold breath n breathe out normally, option c is suggestive of right way
Correct method is c
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