audience:clinical
Learn ICU mobilisation using Hodgson red-yellow-green safety criteria, ABCDEF bundle context, progression from passive ROM to ambulation, and ICU-acquired weakness prevention.
audience:clinical
Exam-prep guide to NIV for physiotherapy students, covering CPAP vs BiPAP, AECOPD indications, common settings, post-extubation NIV, mobilisation, secretion clearance and weaning.
audience:clinical
Understand off-pump versus on-pump CABG, including surgical differences, pulmonary complications, mobilisation timing and key implications for physiotherapy.
audience:clinical
Learn a step-by-step in-hospital physiotherapy protocol for AECOPD, including assessment, NIV, positioning, airway clearance, mobilisation safety and discharge criteria.
audience:clinical
Learn how inspiratory muscle training works, how to prescribe 30–50% MIP, which devices are used and what evidence supports IMT in COPD, CABG and ICU patients.
audience:clinical
A guide to bronchiectasis physiotherapy covering lobe-specific postural drainage, modified positions for elderly and cardiac patients, the move away from prolonged head-down tilt, and how nebulised hypertonic saline fits into modern airway clearance.
audience:clinical
Learn the components, duration, outcome measures and evidence for pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD, ILD and other chronic lung diseases.
audience:clinical
Compare ACBT, autogenic drainage, PEP and oscillatory PEP for chronic bronchitis, with teaching steps, evidence and a practical decision tree.
audience:clinical
Understand centriacinar and panacinar emphysema, hyperinflation, flattened diaphragm, barrel chest, pursed-lip breathing and evidence-based physiotherapy management.
audience:clinical
Learn to interpret spirometry step by step: FEV1, FVC, obstructive and restrictive patterns, bronchodilator response, GOLD staging and loops.
audience:clinical
Learn how to distinguish chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma–COPD overlap and bronchiectasis using pathology, clinical features, PFT findings and physiotherapy implications.
audience:clinical
Learn how physiotherapists identify and manage atelectasis, postoperative atrial fibrillation and brachial plexopathy after CABG, including the causes of left-lower-lobe atelectasis.