Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Brief History of Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, and Maria-Victoria Ruta, MD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Specialties Department, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania, and others)
Chapter 2. Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Romania
(Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Specialties Department, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania, and others)
Chapter 3. Pulmonary Rehabilitation – General Information
(Cristiana Libu, MD, Ariadna Petronela Fildan, MD, PhD, and Oana Cristina Arghir, MD, PhD, Associate University Assistant, Doctoral School of Medicine, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Constanța, Romania, and others)
Chapter 4. Evaluation of COPD Patients for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Alina Croitoru, MD, PhD, and Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, University Assistant, Pulmonology Department, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, and others)
Chapter 5. Lung Function in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Roxana Maria Nemes, MD, PhD, and Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Professor, Medical School, “Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest, Romania, and others)
Chapter 6. Pharmacotherapeutic Management in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Andreea-Daniela Meca and Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Specialist Pharmacist in Clinical Pharmacy, Emergency County Clinical Hospital of Craiova, Craiova, Romania, and others)
Chapter 7. Smoking Cessation Strategies in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Magdalena Ciobanu, MD, and Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Senior Lung Physician, “Marius Nasta” National Institute of Pneumology, Bucharest, Romania, and others)
Chapter 8. Nutritional Assessment and Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD
(Andreea-Daniela Meca, Madalina Olteanu, MD, PhD, and Floarea Mimi Nitu, MD, PhD, Specialist Pharmacist in Clinical Pharmacy, Emergency County Clinical Hospital of Craiova, Craiova, Romania, and others)
Chapter 9. Exercise Program and Prescription in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, and Andreea-Daniela Meca, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Specialties Department, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania, and others)
Chapter 10. Respiratory Rehabilitation and Respiratory Muscle Training
(Gabriela Jimborean, MD, PhD, Edith Simona Ianosi, MD, PhD, Mioara Szatmary, MD, and Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Professor, “George Emil Palade” University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, Targu-Mures, Romania, and others)
Chapter 11. Respiratory Muscle Training – Practical Aspects
(Oliver Christian Göhl, PhD, Sports Scientist and Sports Therapist, Germany, and others)
Chapter 12. The Rehabilitation of Infants with Chronic Neonatal Lung Disease – Clinical Guidelines
(Andreea Avasiloaiei, MD, PhD, and Maria Stamatin, MD, PhD, Lecturer of Neonatology, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania, and others)
Chapter 13. Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Children with Chronic Lung Diseases
(Paul H. Sammut, Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, US)
Chapter 14. Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis
(Edith Simona Ianosi, MD, PhD, Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Roxana Maria Nemes, MD, PhD, and Gabriela Jimborean, MD, PhD, Lecturer, “George Emil Palade” University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, Targu-Mures, Romania, and others)
Chapter 15. Tuberculosis, a Chronic Disease, a New Indication for a New Pulmonary Rehabilitation Statement
(Ioan Anton Arghir, MD, Gabriela Jimborean, MD, PhD, and Oana Cristina Arghir, MD, PhD, Associate University Assistant, Doctoral School of Medicine, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Constanța, Romania, and others)
Chapter 16. Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COVID-19
(Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Specialties Department, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania, and others)
Chapter 17. A Successful Surgical Outcome – The Role of Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Francis J. Podbielski, MD, Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, US, and others)
Chapter 18. Pulmonary Rehabilitation in the Elderly with Oral Problems
(Mihaela Monica Scutariu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Dental Medicine, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania, and others)
Chapter 19. Saline Therapy in the Rehabilitation of COPD Patients
(Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Specialties Department, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania, and others)
Chapter 20. The Importance of Psychotherapy in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Oana Gabriela Bunescu Lazăr and Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Psychotherapist in Experiential Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy, Autonomous Clinical Psychologist, Rehabilitation Clinical Hospital, Iasi, Romania, and others)
Chapter 21. Ethical Framework for Clinical Decision Making in Chronic Respiratory Diseases
(Cristina Gavrilovici, MD, PhD, Liviu Oprea, MD, PhD, and Teodora Manea, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, “St. Maria” Emergency Hospital for Children, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania, and others)
Chapter 22. Return to Work as a Rehabilitation Factor in Pulmonary Diseases
(Ioana Soare, MD, PhD, Lecturer in Insurance Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, “Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest, Romania)
Chapter 23. Telemedicine and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Nicolino Ambrosino, MD, Research Consultant, Istituti Clinici Maugeri, Pavia, Italy, and others)
Chapter 24. The Future of Pulmonary Rehabilitation
(Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, Andreea-Daniela Meca and Darcy D. Marciniuk, MD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Specialties Department, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania, and others)
About the Editors
Paraschiva A. Postolache, MD, PhD, FCCP, Associate Professor, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Specialties Department and Head of the Respiratory Rehabilitation Clinic, Rehabilitation Clinical Hospital, lasi, Romania: Dr. Postolache is Senior Physician in Pneumology, in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Pharmacology, Specialist Physician in Medical Rehabilitation and Smoking Cessation Adviser; Head of the Counseling Center for Smoking Cessation of the Rehabilitation Clinical Hospital lasi, and Member of the “Smoking Cessation” National Program of the Romanian Ministry of Health. Dr. Postolache is the Founder (1996) and the Coordinator of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Working Group of the Romanian Pneumology Society- RPS (2012) and Member of the RPS Board (2012). Dr. Postolache is recognized as an expert and leader in pulmonary rehabilitation with more than 500 invited presentations and 100 peer-reviewed publications, chapters and reviews. Dr. Postolache is a Former Chair of CHEST Council of Global Governors (2011-2014), a Former Member of CHEST/ACCP Pulmonary Physiology, Function, and Rehabilitation NetWork Steering Committee (2014- 2018) and serves as a Member of the CHEST Council of Global Governors since 2014 and CHEST Global Governor for Romania since 2006, USA. Dr. Postolache was nominated as a Fellow of the CHEST (FCCP), USA, in 2005 and GOLD National Leader of the European Respiratory Society in 2010. Dr. Paraschiva Postolache has been honored with awards by the CHEST from USA, European Respiratory Society and Romanian Pneumology Society and by the Romanian Government for her international and national work.
Darcy D. Marciniuk, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, Master FCCP, Associate Vice-President Research University of Saskatchewan,Professor of Medicine,Division of Respirology, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada: Dr. Darcy Marciniuk is recognized internationally as an expert and leader in clinical exercise physiology, COPD, and pulmonary rehabilitation with more than 600 invited presentations and 200 peer-reviewed publications, chapters and reviews. Dr. Marciniuk is a past-President of CHEST (2012-2013) and the Canadian Thoracic Society (2006-2007) and served as a founding Steering Committee member of Canada’s National Lung Health Framework. Dr. Marciniuk was nominated as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2017, and has been bestowed with the Distinguished Scientist Honor Lecture (2011) and the Thomas L. Petty Master FCCP Memorial Honor Lecture (2015) by the American College of Chest Physicians, the Founder’s Award (2013) by the Canadian Lung Association, and the Christie Memorial Lecture and Award (2016) by the Canadian Thoracic Society. Dr. Marciniuk is the Medical Director of the Live Well COPD Chronic Disease Management Program in The Saskatchewan Health Authority and Deputy Editor Outreach for the journal CHEST.
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