Teaching Incentive Spirometer & Turn, Cough, Deep Breathe

Deep breathing and coughing exercises
-improve (or maintain) ventilation and pulmonary gas exchange
(especially after prolonged immobility or general anesthesia)
-work by clearing mucus and allowing moisturized air to enter the bronchi/bronchioles/alveoli
-prevent or treat respiratory complications from immobility & illness
-inflates alveoli, removes secretion that may become reservoir for microbial growth, which may in turn interfere with gas exchange
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