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Breathing exercises help reduce pneumonia risk after surgery
Pneumonia and other lung complications are halved after major abdominal surgery if patients are taught breathing exercises by a physiotherapist, researchers say.
Nursing Standard. 32, 28, 17-17. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.28.17.s13
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