Physiotherapy and Treating Pneumonia
Physiotherapy and Treating Pneumonia, Inflammation in the alveoli makes the alveoli filled with fluid or pus, making it difficult for the person to breathe. This causes an extreme condition termed pneumonia, which is basically an infection of one or both lungs.
- Inflammation and consolidation of lung tissues due to an infectious agent is termed Pneumonia.
- Here consolidation refers to inflammatory induration of a normally aerated lung due to the presence of cellular exudative in alveoli.
How does pneumonia develop?
Most of the time the body filters organisms. This keeps the lungs from becoming infected, but organisms sometimes enter the lungs and cause infections. This is more likely to occur when the immune system is weak. The organism is very strong and the body fails to filter the organisms.
Predisposing factors of pneumonia.
- Cigarette smoking
- Upper respiratory tract infections
- Alcohol
- Old age
- Recent influenza infection
- Pre-existing lung disease
How does pneumonia develop?
- Congestion- the presence of a proteinaceous exudate and often of bacteria in the alveoli
- Red hepatisation-Presence of erythrocytes in the cellular interalveolar exudate.
- Neutrophils are also present.
- Bacteria are occasionally seen in cultures of alveoli specimens collected.
- Gray hepatization-No new erythrocytes are extravasating and those already present have been lying and degraded. A neutrophil is the predominant cell fibrin deposition and is abundant.
- Bacteria have disappeared corresponds with the successful contaminant of the infection and improvement in gas exchange
- Broncho pneumonia – affect the lungs and patches around the bronchi.
- Lober pneumonia-An infection which involves a single lobe or section of a lung.
- Interstitial pneumonia. It involves the areas in between the alveoli.
- Pneumonia can be hospital-acquired or ventilator-associated which arises more than 48 to 72 hours after endotracheal intubation.
Clinical features include
- Fever
- Rigors
- Shivering
- Vomiting
- Loss of appetite
Pulmonary symptoms include
- Short painful dry cough later accompanied by much purulent sputum
- Hemoptysis in patients with streptococcus pneumonia
- Pleuritic chest pain referred to shoulder or anterior abdomen
- Upper abdominal tenderness
Management
Oxygen
- It is administered to patients with tachypnea hypoxemia, hypotension or acidosis
- Humidified high concentration for patients without hypercapnia
Fluid therapy
- Oral intake of fluids IV for severe cases. Inotropic support for patients with shock
Treatment for pleuretic pain
- Analgesics such as paracetamol
Physiotherapy for pneumonia includes active physiotherapy as well as passive physiotherapy.
- Active physiotherapy
Different types of breathing exercises like
- segmental,
- Breathing,
- Glossopharyngeal breathing
- Chest expansion exercises
- spirometry
- Breathing exercises along with movements and specific activities
Passive physiotherapy
Percussions and vibrations to reduce chest congestion and increase chest capacity
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