L8: Pulmonary Rehabilitation Flashcards
What is the definition of pulmonary rehabilitation? What are the aims?
- A comprehensive intervention, based on a thorough assessment
- Exercise training, education and behaviour change; tailored to the patient
- Designed to improve physical and psychological condition of people with chronic respiratory disease
- Aims to promote long-term adherence to health-enhancing behaviours
What are the 2 clinical programs of pulmonary rehabilitation?
- Outpatient: either hospital or community based
- Emerging evidence with home-based programs
- Inpatient interventions
What are the 2 areas of pulmonary rehabilitation?
- Traditionally in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Emerging evidence with:
- Bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease and pulmonary vascular disease
- Considered essential pre & post lung transplantation & lung volume reduction surgery
MUST do pre-rehab except if patient is extremely fit or have CF
What are the 4 aims of pulmonary rehabilitation?
- ↓ symptoms
- Optimise functional status
- ↑ participation
- ↓ health care costs
EDUCATION + EXERCISE + SUPPORT
What is the clinical presentation, interventions and disease progression in pulmonary rehabilitation?
What is the process and content in pulmonary rehabilitation?
What are the 7 benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation?
- ↑ Exercise capacity
- ↑ Muscle strength
- ↑ Health-related quality of life
- ↓ Dyspnoea level
- Health care utilisation benefits
- Psychosocial benefits
- Beneficial for people with other chronic respiratory diseases
What are 9 Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for pulmonary rehabilitation?
- Is PR effective compared with usual care in patients with COPD?
- Stable disease - Strong recommendation
- Early commencement of post-exacerbation PR – Weak recommendation
- Does pulmonary rehabilitation affect health care utilisation?
- Moderate-severe COPD - Strong recommendation to decrease hospitalisation for exacerbations
- Is a community or home-based pulmonary rehabilitation program as effective as a hospital-based pulmonary rehabilitation program?
- Home-based compared to usual care – Weak recommendation
- Home-based compared to hospital/community-based – Weak recommendation
- In people with mild disease severity, is pulmonary rehabilitation as/more effective as/than usual care? Weak recommendation
- Are programs of longer duration more effective than the standard eight week programs? Unclear
- Does ongoing supervised exercise at a lower frequency than the initial pulmonary rehabilitation program, maintain exercise capacity and quality of
- life to 12 months?
- Unclear best model but <1x/month recommended
- Does a structured education program enhance the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation?
- PR offered irrespective of availability of education program - Weak recommendation
- Do patients who experience oxygen desaturation during exercise have greater improvements if oxygen supplementation is provided during training? Further research is required
- Is pulmonary rehabilitation effective in chronic respiratory diseases other than COPD?
- Bronchiectasis: Yes - Weak recommendation
- Interstitial Lung Disease: Yes - Weak recommendation
- Pulmonary Hypertension: Yes - Weak recommendation
- Hard to make patients blinded in research –> that’s why results are weak
What are 4 eligibility criteria for pulmonary rehabilitation?
- COPD or other chronic respiratory disease
- Symptomatic – dyspnoea or fatigue
- Limited activity levels
- Willingness to participate
- Even if current smoker
- Consider motivation, logistical difficulties, etc
- Cardiovascular disease comorbidity
- Can be referred with coexisting stable disease
- Anxiety &/or depression should not preclude referral
What are 3 exclusion criteria for pulmonary rehabilitation?
- Severe cognitive impairment or psychotic disturbance
- Relevant infectious disease
- From exercise if have:
- Musculoskeletal or neurological disorders preventing gentle exercise
- Unstable cardiovascular disease
- Known metastatic cancer
What clinically happens in pulmonary rehabilitation?
What is 9 assessments in pulmonary rehabilitation?
8 weeks of rehab
- Diagnosis & co-morbidities
- Respiratory function
- Smoking history
- Poorer drop-out rate, while effectiveness is the same
- Nutritional Status
- Low BMI is implicated in higher mortality for people with COPD
- Exercise capacity
- Quality of life (QOL)
- Dyspnoea / breathlessness
- Mental health assessment – anxiety & depression
- Patient Goals
What are 5 outcome measures in the assessment of exercise capacity in pulmonary rehabilitation?
- Assess level of functional impairment & limitation in activity
- Evaluate benefits of rehabilitation
- Determine the factors that limit exercise capacity
- Usually breathlessness, can be leg/muscle fatigue
- Provide information that will guide exercise prescription
- Identify O2 desaturation during exercise and assist prescription of supplemental O2
What are 5 assessments of exercise capacity in pulmonary rehabilitation?
- 6MWT (6 min walk test)
- ISWT (Incremental shuttle walk test)
- Cardiopulmonary Exercise test
- Provide detailed information on physiological measurements/ limitations
- Endurance Shuttle Walking Test – ESWT
- Modified SWT (At a certain speed, can’t walk any faster –> can start to run)
What are 3 assessments of exercise capacity (upper limb tests) in pulmonary rehabilitation?
- Dyspnea levels on activities of daily living
- Incremental Unsupported Upper limb Exercise Test
- Grocery shelving test