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>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
Perry
Here at Sheffield Hallam University, UK we have a Critical Care Unit for physio's which looks into
questions like this. I have passed your email onto Julie Reeve who is the programme leader, she
may be able to help you with your problem. as a small aside is the doctor asking you to justify
phyiotherapy as a profession or some of the modalities and treatment techniques we use?
Dave Nicholls
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