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Conducting Respiratory Oscillometry in an Outpatient Setting
Published on: April 8, 2022
[Publications in respiratory nursing and physiotherapy]
Vicente Macián Gisbert1, Esperanza Sánchez Gómez
1Área de Enfermería y Fisioterapia, Junta Directiva de la SEPAR, España.
Abstract:
The Respiratory Nursing and Physiotherapy Section of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, established as a working group more than 19 years ago, has been characterized by a high degree of involvement and collaboration with all the research studies requiring nursing and physiotherapy techniques. However, publication of articles by this collective is scarce compared with that of the rest of the Society and the characteristics, attitudes and limitations of this section pose an obstacle to increasing the number of its publications. This article aims to explain some of the possible reasons that could have given rise to this situation. The new tendencies and the attitude of this collective and the rest of the Society are encouraging and suggest that the work of the Respiratory Nursing and Physiotherapy Section will be better reflected in the future.
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