Author/Editor		Vehar, Slavi; Sakelšek-Jeras, Ljudmila
Title		Operacija na srcu in spremembe pljučnih volumnov
Translated title		The heart operation and changes of lung volumes
Type		članek
Source		Fizioterapija
Vol. and No.		Letnik 11, št. Suppl 1
Publication year		2003
Volume		str. 125-33
Language		slo
Abstract		Objectives: The needs for respiratory physiotherapy with the patients having been operated on thorax should be established; therefore the changes of lung volumes with the patients operated on cardiac valves have been observed, together with the group of patients operated on coronary arteries. The results of both groups have been compared if there are differences between both groups. We were interested in the reduction of lung volumes after the breathing tube had been removed, and in the time when their values happened to be the lowest. The assessments of changed functional lung tests help us to choose the most adequate way of respiratory physiotherapy. Methods: In the processing of statistical data the Anova, Student's T Test, standard deviation and variance analysis have been used. In cases where statistical differences were characteristic, the results were further researched by Scheffe test for difference ascertainment, which was shown in forms of graphs and tables. Results: Thirty-two patients, twenty-five men and seven women, participated in the study. Their average age was 58 ± 12 years, their average weight was 76 ± 12 kg. Patients were divided into two groups, the patients operated on cardiac valves (group A) and the patients operated on coronary arteries (group B). High statistical difference in the measurement lung volumes was confirmed before and after the operation. Difference between measurements at the control examination were not statistically typical. On the first day after the removal of breathing tube value of the lung volumes is the lowest by both groups then proportionate improvements were visible. The lung volumes diminish for about a half comparing to the situation before the operation. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
Descriptors		HEART SURGERY EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION SPIROMETRA FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE