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... > Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Patient Care > Continuity of Patient Care > Aftercare > Rehabilitation > Physical Therapy Modalities > Drainage, Postural
... > Therapeutics > Patient Care > Continuity of Patient Care > Aftercare > Rehabilitation > Physical Therapy Modalities > Drainage, Postural
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Patient Care Management > Comprehensive Health Care > Primary Health Care > Continuity of Patient Care > Aftercare > Rehabilitation > Physical Therapy Modalities > Drainage, Postural
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine > Rehabilitation > Physical Therapy Modalities > Drainage, Postural
Therapeutics > Respiratory Therapy > Drainage, Postural
Surgical Procedures, Operative > Drainage > Drainage, Postural
Therapeutics > Drainage > Drainage, Postural

Preferred term

Drainage, Postural  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A rehabilitation therapy for removal of copious mucus secretion from the lung of patients with diseases such as CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; PULMONARY ABSCESS; or CYSTIC FIBROSIS. The patient's head is placed in a downward incline (so the TRACHEA is inferior to the affected area) for 15- to 20-minute sessions.

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Entry terms

  • Drainage, Respiratory, Postural
  • Postural Drainage
  • Postural Drainage, Pulmonary
  • Respiratory Drainage, Postural

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In other languages

  • Drainage postural

    French

  • Drainage de posture
  • Drainage des voies aériennes supérieures
  • Drainage respiratoire postural

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-GR3389ZK-4

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