Tarek Aboelmaged Mohammed <br/><br/>
Exercise capacity response to  acapella device in patients with  chronic suppurative  lung diseases :    /  
 إستجابة قدرة التمارين لجهاز الأكابيلا لمرضى التقيح الرئوى المزمن  
Tarek Aboelmaged Mohammed ; Supervised Akram Abdelaziz , Nesreen Ghareeb Mohamed Elnahas , Sabah Ahmed Mohamed  
 - Cairo :   Tarek Aboelmaged Mohammed ,   2014 
 - 139 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Physical Therapy for Cardiopaulmonarty and Geriatrics Disorders 
<br/><br/> Purpose: To investigate the response of exercise capacity to acapella device in patients with  chronic suppurative lung diseases (CSLD). Results: Statistical analysis revealed a significant improvement of all blood gases and exercise  capacity with study group when compared with control group. The percentage of decrease of  PaCo2 was17.7 %, Borg scale was 37.08%,also for systolic blood pressure was 6.28% and that  of diastolic blood pressure was 5.94% and the percentage of increase of Pao2 was 22.32% , SaO2 was 10.72% and that of the six minute walk distance was 24.33% for the study and for the  control group the percentage of decrease of PaCo2 was 4.64%, Borg scale was 17.33% , also  for systolic blood pressure was 4.29% and that of diastolic blood pressure was 4.23%, the  percentage of increase of Pao2 was 5.36% , SaO2 was 3.19% ,and that of the six minute walk  distance was 11.88%  
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Acapella  Airway clearance  Arterial blood gases