An Assessment of Balloon Spirometer as an Aid in Chest Physiotherapy Dr. Dwivedi S.K.1,*, Patel Kiran2, Uday Somashekar3, Adile S.L.4 1Assistant Professor and H.O.D. Physiology, Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur 2Associate Professor, Physiology, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur 3Associate Professor, Surgery, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur 4Dean, Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur (Bastar) *Corresponding Author E-mail: drskd05@rediffmail.com
Online published on 2 May, 2015. Abstract Objective To assess the role of balloon spirometer as an aid for providing chest physiotherapy. Material and method Data was collected from sixty cases of 18 to 60 years of age of both sexes, who underwent major abdominal surgery in a predrawn and pretested proforma. Findings and interpretation On analysis it was recorded that in control group chest complications were in 60% of cases in comparison to only in 13% of cases in incentive spirometry group. At probability of 0.05 these complication rate was highly significant (p = 0.0001). Thus incentive chest physiotherapy proved beneficial in comparison to no physiotherapy. Recommendation Authors recommend that in developing countries like India routine prophylactic Balloon type of chest physiotherapy can be used as an aid in preventing post pulmonary complications. Top Keywords Balloon Spirometry (B.S.), Chest Physiotherapy. Top |