Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease (Mar 2020)

Respiratory physiotherapy in patients with COVID-19 infection in acute setting: a Position Paper of the Italian Association of Respiratory Physiotherapists (ARIR)

  • Marta Lazzeri,
  • Andrea Lanza,
  • Raffaella Bellini,
  • Angela Bellofiore,
  • Simone Cecchetto,
  • Alessia Colombo,
  • Francesco D'Abrosca,
  • Cesare Del Monaco,
  • Giuseppe Gaudellio,
  • Mara Paneroni,
  • Emilia Privitera,
  • Mariangela Retucci,
  • Veronica Rossi,
  • Martina Santambrogio,
  • Maurizio Sommariva,
  • Pamela Frigerio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2020.1285
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 90, no. 1

Abstract

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Respiratory physiotherapy in patients with COVID-19 infection in acute setting: a Position Paper of the Italian Association of Respiratory Physiotherapists (ARIR) On February 2020, Italy, especially the northern regions, was hit by an epidemic of the new SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus that spread from China between December 2019 and January 2020. The entire healthcare system had to respond promptly in a very short time to an exponential growth of the number of subjects affected by COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) with the need of semi-intensive and intensive care units.

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