Hi, everone. This is Perry Tang speaking from Princess Margaret
Hospital, Hong Kong.
We are facing a problem related to our chest physiotherpy service to
patients in Intensive Care Unit. We have one doctor who is the Chief of
Service of ICU questioning the effectiveness of chest physiotherapy to
critical care patients and decrease his referral to us due to costing
and budget cutting.
Did anybody knows if there is any evidence-based study of the
effectiveness of performing chest physiotherapeutic techniques to
patients of critical care? The outcomes study of the doctor's concern is
only mortality rate and length of stay of the patients.
Regards,
Perry Tang
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