Chest physiotherapy and post-extubation
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Saleh Al-Alalyan; David Dyer; Bashir Khan
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We investigated the role of chest physiotherapy (CPT) in preventing post-extubation atelectasis (PEA) in infants. Sixty-three infants who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit and intubated for more than 24 hours and who showed no evidence of atelectasis by chest x-ray prior to extubatio